Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government-sponsored projects at the Institute today involve an annual expenditure of approximately 28 million dollars. Last year's academic budget was just under 15 million dollars. Government expenditures were principally divided among three classified projects--the Instrumentation Laboratory at the Institute, operations evaluation for the Navy Department in Washington, and Bedford's Lincoln Project...
Last month, when newsmen were admitted through the heavy security net around the Lincoln Laboratories, they saw for the first time the M.I.T.-developed SAGE warning system--"semi-automatic ground environment." Designed to eliminate human errors in data-processing, Project Lincoln's electronic devices assemble and evaluate battle information, and even direct the attack of interceptors. With the Bedford installation serving as a prototype coordinating the air defense of New England, 32 similar centers are projected for the United States and Canada...
...Project Lincoln, employing over 1800 M.I.T. technicians, is just one of over 200 government-sponsored projects administered by the Institute's Division of Defense Laboratories. At the same time 45 industrial projects were carried on under the Division of Industrial Cooperation...
...Reserve Mining Co., owned by Republic Steel and Armco, will have its 3,750,000-ton taconite processing project at Babbitt and Silver Bay, Minn. in full production...
...cars. In addition, the partners last week won a contract to master-plan a long-range, $5,000,000 remodeling program at Los Angeles' Occidental College, started work on a 100-room addition to the Disneyland hotel, and a $40 million Los Angeles slum-clearance project. The new business brought P. & L.'s five-year contract total to well over $1.1 billion. "I think," grinned Chuck Luckman, "we're adjusting our art to the realities of life...