Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea for a study originated in 1953 when Pakistan asked the Ford Foundation for a grant to formulate a five-year economic development plan. The funds were appropriated, and subsequently the Pakistan government asked Mason to direct the project...
...students' plans were studied last month by Dean Bundy, Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, Trottenberg, and a committee from the Architecture faculty. The judges were "sympathetic with the modern trend," according to Walter F. Bogner, professor of Architecture, in charge of the project. He doubted that any of the plans would be adopted directly, but Trottenberg said they would be carefully reviewed for worthwhile ideas...
Give an American a vague generalization like "longterm foreign aid" and he mistrusts it. Give him a daring development project that can be accomplished only by installment payments, and he sees the point. Last week, in a not-for-attribution background press briefing, a "high Government source" finally got down to cases in the Administration's long-bobbled plea to Congress for authority to make long-term foreign-aid commitments (TIME...
...Administration wants no specific funds this year, but needs congressional authority to promise Egypt that a share of foreign-aid budgets (probably $15 million to $20 million a year) can go to the Aswan project for the 10-to-15-year period of construction. Says the Administration's spokesman: "You can't build an eighth of a dam or half a dam and add to it later...
...World Bank will probably put up some $200 million, most of which it will try to pass along to private capital. But the bank cannot commit this kind of money unless it is sure that the U.S. (plus Britain) will put up the remainder and stick with the project until the dam is completed...