Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come from Florida. Good farm land is expanding, notably in the swamps and jungle of the Everglades, where a $250 million drainage and reclamation project is uncovering black muck soil as fertile as anything on earth...
...King's personal total of palaces to 24. Though the country boasts only 200 miles of surfaced roads, it continues to rate as the best Cadillac market east of Suez (250 sold this year). In a country which must import half its food, the most noteworthy farm-development project is operated on 1,800 irrigated acres at Al Kharj oasis, near Riyadh-primarily for the benefit of the royal family tables...
...other Air Force scientists must hurry too; every new weapon project calls for materials and components of higher and higher performance. Human nerves and senses and brains must be better understood, and nonhuman brains (computing devices) with greater intelligence must be constructed. Ideas of promise must be exploited, and new ideas must be extracted from both gadgetmakers and theoretical scientists. There is no rest in the fight for air power, and no end in sight...
...Irregularities on the moon's surface affect the observation of solar eclipses, which can be used to measure accurately the distances between earthly continents. This is important for the Air Force's most ambitious project, the intercontinental ballistic missile...
...consolidate under one roof 8,700 of the bank's personnel, now scattered over nine buildings, at "substantial savings in operating expenses." As its contribution to the area's rejuvenation, New York City plans to build near by a 5½-acre, 750-unit, middle-income housing project...