Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read with interest your Dec. 19 article "Pioneers in Space," in which you mention the "mishaps" attendant on the Snark missile program. I am sure that not only the employees of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., but the military personnel close to the project, share my conviction that the Snark has contributed far too much to U.S. missile technology to be dismissed with a feeble witticism ["the Snark-infested waters of Cape Canaveral"]. At the time the Snark program began, immediately after World War II, the problems of developing an accurate intercontinental missile were widely considered impossible of solution; the project...
...calls "protection" expenses will take 64% of the 1957 budget. In addition to the $35.5 billion for the armed services, the President asks for $1.9 billion for the Atomic Energy Commission, some $230 million more than this year. And he again asked Congress to authorize his favorite atomic project, the nuclear-powered "peace ship," which "will carry the message of Atoms-for-Peace to the ports of the world." On direct military aid to the allies, Ike plans to hold steady at the spending rate of $2.5 billion. Economic aid will hover near $1.7 billion, but the President wants Congress...
...also chairman of the advisory committee for Associated Universities, Inc., which is completing a study of the proposed project. Associated Universities, which includes Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, M.I.T., Pennsylvania, Princeton, Rochester and Yale, operates Brookhaven National Laboratories for the Atomic Energy Commission...
...some other private group, and will be open to all qualified astronomers. It will not be operated by the Federal Government, and no classified defense work is contemplated. The observatory would be built by the National Science Foundation because no private institution could afford such an extensive project...
...Harvard has made a major contribution to radio astronomy in this country, a contribution in training and research that provided much of the background for this project," Bok noted. The College Observatory's 60-foot radio telescope, now under construction at Harvard, Mass., will be the largest in the country when it is completed, and a 24-foot model is now in operation there...