Word: projects
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...Their Orbit. Hagerty added that this first U.S. satellite would be a project for peace, not for war. It would be a U.S. contribution to the International Geophysical Year (1957-58), and its explorer's view of sun, moon, planets, stars and space, transmitted down to mankind by telemeters, would be available to all scientists, including the Russians...
...German stock, North Dakotans are working during this time of no immediate crisis on a promising plan to prevent future dust bowls. Last week beneath the prairie sun, tractors and dump trucks, concrete mixers and elevation loaders, electric and power shovels and bulldozers bumped and clunked on the project that is the heart of North Dakota's new hope-the second biggest rolled-fill earth dam in the world, across the unpredictable Missouri River at Garrison, N.D. Garrison Dam, a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Engineers and the state of North Dakota, already stands 200 feet...
...improve no fewer than 18 million acres. North Dakota hopes the new water will bring it: 1) 3,600 new farms, 2) 1,700 new businesses, 3) 20,000 new jobs, 4) 93,000 more people. 5) $250 million a year in new farm and business incomes. The Garrison project will triple the power capacity of the state with its 400,000 kw., and its flood controls will impound floodwater from 180,000 square miles. Eventually, the Missouri will be backed up into a new lake 200 miles long and 6 to 15 miles wide...
...pipeline is the most costly and ambitious development project yet undertaken by the bustling Israelis. Starting in 1953, they laid 22,000 sections of concrete-lined steel pipe, each weighing ten tons, and built seven pumping stations and three large reservoirs. The U.S. sent technical aid, most of the tools, and almost all the $24,750,000 required for financing: $4,500,000 as a direct U.S. grant-in-aid, another $9,350,000 indirectly in counterpart funds, the remainder in private funds...
After 1958, when a twin pipeline is completed to the eastern Negev, the whole project will increase Israel's irrigable area by 100,000 acres, or 50%, and there will be land for 66,000 newcomers. Unfortunately, the Negev pipeline scheme is far from being the answer to Israel's search for self-sufficiency in food. Last fiscal year, Israel's best economically since its birth seven years ago, imports of $289,500,000 greatly exceeded exports of $881 million. The agricultural output resulting from the new Negev farms will cut the huge deficit by only...