Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy said he could not remember the exact time when the first information about Kamin had first been brought to his attention. The only evidence he had Kamin was a government employee, he also admitted, was general information that he had been employed in a radar project...
...said that information that Kamin had worked in a government radar project in 1945-46, supplied by either Roy M. Cohn or Francis P. Carr, had caused him to summon Kamin as part of an investigation of Communist infiltration in defense installations...
...Alumni Bulletin," in printing the Memorial Hall letters, pointed out that restoration of the tower would cost up to $100,000 and that "it seems a fair question whether this project is the most desirable channel for so much of the University's unrestricted funds." William Bond Wheelwright '01 answered in a succeeding issue with "a fairer question: . . . Does the Corporation deny it is its legal duty to maintain its property in proper condition...
Blackstone Boulevard. Ohio's project was inspired largely by the phenomenal success of the prewar Pennsylvania Turnpike. Yet the state legislature voted against it in 1947, approved it in 1949 by a single Senate vote only after bitter debate...
...When the turnpike bonds went on the market in 1952, private investors, looking toward revenues from tolls, bought up the entire $326 million in one day. Before the market closed that day, the commission's $1,000 tax-exempt 3¼% bonds commanded a $25 premium. But the project was still plagued by delays, and so many obstructive lawsuits that one attorney wryly suggested paving the roadway with law! books and naming it Blackstone Boulevard. No concrete was poured at all for the first four years. Then in late 1953, an army of roadmaking machines began to roll...