Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot radio telescope, the largest on this continent, was asked by Eisenhower as the first step in construction. In his budget message he requested Congress to appropriate $3,500,000 this year to the National Science Foundation for the project...
Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Professor of Applied Astronomy, and Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, are now in Washington meeting on the National Science Foundation's advisory panel on radio astronomy. They are discussing details of the project and considering six possible sites in the Appalachians, from the southeast corner of West Virginia through to the western portion of the Carolinas. This area is especially suitable because of its freedom from radio and television interference...
...find me a job somewhere, and I'll go." Paul-Dominique Crevaux, the pistol-packing young mayor of Philippeville, whose family has been in Algeria since 1847, was busy organizing a committee to resettle his citizens in Australia and South America. He had a special interest in the project, since he has already made up his mind about the future of his own family of five. "There is only one thing to do," he said...
With his million franc windfall, Francis plans to finance a new studio and a trip to the U.S. And as his canvases get bigger and bigger, he is also intrigued by the thought of another project: "I'd like to buy one of those flying platforms they've just designed. Gosh, with one of those you could hover any place you wanted, and you could make 40-ft. brush strokes...
...would deprive nearly 70,000 white players and 100 city employees of their jobs and their rights in order to deny a few dozen Negro players the use of the golf links. Atlanta has never provided a separate but equal golf course for Negroes because such an expensive project could never be justified to our taxpayers in terms of the few Negro citizens who play golf...