Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gore pushed ahead with his plans while Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had hoped to avoid an all-out gas-lobbying inquiry, was in Texas, resting up at his ranch on the banks of the Pedernales River.* Gore cleared his project with on-the-spot Democratic brass, e.g., Acting Majority Leader Earle Clements and Georgia's Senator Walter George, who had presided over the Case hearings. Then, without waiting for a by-your-leave from Johnson, Gore gave public notice of his plan to make his subcommittee the Senate's searching...
NUCLEAR POWER for the British Commonwealth will get a boost from U.S. industry. In the first commercial Anglo-American atomic project, American Machine & Foundry Co. and Britain's Mitchell Engineering, Ltd. have agreed to build a series of nuclear power plants in underdeveloped Commonwealth areas...
...years ago Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., with Ford Motor Co., set up pilot operations to mine and process* jasper by a new method. Last week Cleveland-Cliffs and Inland Steel Co. announced that they will build, near Marquette, Mich., the nation's first big jasper-mining and processing project. At peak production the Marquette plants will grind some 6,000,000 tons of jasper yearly, convert it into 3,000,000 tons of walnut-sized pellets that contain 60% iron...
Under the overall direction of Reginald R. Isaacs, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning, and Mark Fortune, Director of the Cambridge Planning Board, third year students are carrying out the project, which may continue for several years. Despite its unofficial status the implications on long-range University planning could be profound...
Perhaps the most encouraging sign is the Rogers Block project. Displacing 133 families, 357 people, this clearance program comes under the Housing Act of 1949. It is now nearing reality, which means that the slums will be replaced by industry. But if the fact that something was done looks hopeful, the stumbling, hesitant, often ludicrous incompetence with which the program has been carried out should also serve as a warning to those who see Urban Renewal as a panacea. Inexperience, administrative red tape, and sheer incompetence almost killed this project and the problems will redouble if a really substantial...