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Word: projects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lousy." Libby got a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to Princeton, but a few months later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and he offered his services to Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey. Urey arranged for Libby's transfer to Columbia University, and he plunged into the historic Manhattan (atom bomb) Project, working through the war with great effect on the key problem of separating the isotopes of uranium. Not until news of the Hiroshima bomb came out did Libby mention his work at home. On that day he came home with a tall stack of newspapers and said triumphantly: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Philosophers' Stone | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...high-level (602-ft.) federal dam with initial capacity of 800,000 kilowatts. Idaho Power Co. wanted to build three smaller, privately financed hydroelectric dams (initial capacity: 783,400 kw.) at Oxbow. Brownlee and Hell's Canyon sites, all of which would have been flooded by the Government project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Decision on the Snake | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...drama project, Matinee, demonstrates why Weaver is anxious to develop and popularize the ancient art of hack writing. Matinee next season begins a series of five one-hour plays a week (Monday through Friday, 3 p.m., E.D.T.) every week of the year. The 260 plays yearly require, according to NBC, an initial $1,000,000 outlay, 4,000 actors, 20 directors, five permanent production units and 100 writers and adapters. This one show is the theatrical equivalent of five fully staffed repertory companies, with salaries and audiences guaranteed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Writers' Day | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Field can afford to grow. The money-losing paper that he took over in 1950 is now solidly in the black. Unlike his father, who seldom counted the financial cost in backing a project, young Marshall Field Jr. takes after his cost-conscious, merchant-prince grandfather. Though daily circulation slipped (now 556,885), he boosted ads and cut costs by putting every department on a dollar-watching financial footing. Field himself works hard, and he expects every other Sun-Timesman to follow suit. Says one of his top executives: "He's a tough little guy to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sun Up in Chicago | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

NORTH-SOUTH PIPELINE will link Louisiana's gas fields with Midwest markets. The Securities & Exchange Commission has approved a $130 million project by American Natural Gas Co. to build a 1,000-mile line from southern Louisiana to Michigan, where it will link with other American natural gas pipelines spreading across Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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