Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other action, the council approved the constitutions of the Harvard-Delhi Project and the Students for Stevenson...
...entering," said Quarles, "a period of aviation technology in which aircraft of unusual configuration and flight characteristics will begin to appear." As an example of aircraft-to-come, he told about "another project under contract with A. V. Roe Canada, Ltd., which could result in disk-shaped aircraft somewhat similar to the popular concept of a flying saucer. An available picture, while only an artist's conception, could illustrate such an object...
...cultists are not easily discouraged. They might still claim that saucer-shaped aircraft built on earth are proof that extraterrestrial flying saucers, manned by little men from Venus (or Mars), have been infesting the atmosphere. So Quarles released simultaneously a massive "analysis of reports of unidentified aerial objects." Called Project Blue Book and bristling with charts, diagrams, data sheets and tables of figures, it is a meticulous study of 4,965 flying-saucer "sightings...
Diminishing Unknowns. Last week Project Blue Book was ready to release its conclusions. As might be expected, nearly all the sightings could be explained in nonsensational ways...
Inland's expansion, like the others, is intended to meet not only present but future needs. Among Inland's projects: a seven-year exploitation, started in 1953, to expand iron-ore mining at Financier Cyrus Eaton's Steep Rock development in Ontario (TIME, March 9, 1953), from which Inland hopes to get 3,000,000 tons a year by 1969; a 19-story, stainless-steel office building, one of the few new skyscrapers in Chicago since the Depression; a land-filling project near Inland's Indiana Harbor plant on Lake Michigan's south shore...