Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear, however, that I would be President in my own right, and that I would assume full responsibility for such decisions as had to be made." After the Cabinet meeting, Secretary of War Henry Stimson lingered behind. "[He] told me that he wanted me to know about an immense project that was under way -a project looking to the development of a new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive power. That was all he felt free to say at the time, and his statement left me puzzled. It was the first bit of information that had come to me about...
Died. Frank T. Tobey, 64, mayor of Memphis since 1953, spearhead of the campaign in the South against the proposed Dixon-Yates power project; of coronary thrombosis; in Memphis...
Last week, from the British Foreign Ministry to the U.S. State Department, came a note of protest against the U.S. refusal to accept the bid by the English Electric Co. Ltd. on six generators and three transformers for the Chief Joseph project. The company spent some $60,000 to prepare its bid. It was the lowest received and it met specifications. Under ordinary circumstances, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson would have been required to accept the British bid. English Electric's offer was 16% ($964,000) below that of the lowest U.S. bidder, and U.S. purchasing officers must generally award...
...soon realized that they had found a new jewel case of Byzantine art. With the job only three-fourths completed, their most significant find has been a set of 18 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Virgin Mary. Says Professor Paul A. Underwood, field director of the Istanbul project, who this week reports on the restoration work to the World Byzantine Congress in Istanbul: "Kariye Camii is the best sample we have of late Byzantine...
When he completes his present job, Steiger will plunge into an even more challenging assignment: building Switzerland's first "atomic city" in Zurich Canton. The project calls for a power-reactor plant surrounded by factories, and a complete town for the personnel. "If it works," Steiger says briskly, "I hope it will show that the architect can have a big, responsible position in the atomic...