Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit this week, an eleven-year-old dream of a beautiful and functional downtown civic center (see above) was approaching reality. On a 76-acre site along the Detroit River, the first buildings of the $100 million project, a 20-story City-County Building and a Veterans Memorial Building, were open to the public. A 2,800-seat auditorium named for Henry and Edsel Ford and a 700-car underground garage were almost finished, and a convention hall and exhibits building, seating 14.000 people, was about to be started...
Across the nation, the sound of jackhammers and heavy earth movers told of similar large-scale building projects under way in the hearts of scores of other U.S. cities. Whole blocks of old buildings, acres of overcrowded downtown areas, were being ripped out. In the gaps, new buildings were beginning to rise, units of planned medical, residential and civic centers, set among broad avenues and spacious parks. Examples: ¶ In New York, a $40 million Columbus Circle project, almost finished, will include a 10,000-seat Coliseum, 528 apartments and a 20-story office building. Also under construction: ten giant...
...million Fort Dearborn Project calls for the complete rebuilding of 150 acres near the downtown Loop district with apartments, government buildings, a branch of the University of Illinois and large parking facilities...
Chiefly responsible for the educational project is Cass D. Alvin, the Steelworkers' western regional educational director. Alvin likes to cite a page of labor history as the wrong way to cope with the problem: England's igth century "Luddites" tried to stem the infant Industrial Revolution by smashing up the new machinery. Says Alvin: "We could kick these new electronic machines like the Luddites did, but they wouldn't give a damn...
More than 50 steelworkers have already signed up, and Alvin knows that watchful eyes at the 1,200,000-member union's headquarters are on the project. Says he: "Automation's a scare word, but if we're going to scare our men, let's scare them intelligently. There's no point in telling them a second flood is coming and nobody knows where the ark is. Our four-year course...