Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1953, the 1,250,000 tenants of federal housing projects have been required to sign oaths of nonmembership in subversive organizations. The Congress attached this requirement to a federal housing appropriations bill, on the ground that taxpayers' dollars should not provide roofs for Communists or their friends. Some tenants, in Washington, Baltimore and New York, refused to sign the oath and were threatened with eviction. Among them were Doris and John Rudder, who occupy a two-bedroom apartment in Washington's Lincoln Heights project...
...estate, insurance, farming and stock raising. Mojave desert realtors obligingly indoctrinate home buyers in the business of poultry raising, sell them the equipment along with their new homes, even arrange the buying (on credit) of chicks and feed and the marketing of the grown product. Today, a new housing project near Lancaster claims to be the most concentrated poultry raising area in the U.S., with every backyard a crowded chicken...
...opposition of backers and booking agents to rescue male dancers from general scorn as sissies and mere props for female dancers. From 1933 to 1940 he successfully toured the country with his troupe of male dancers. But with World War II the draft made short work of this project. Shawn himself danced and directed shows at Keesler Field, Miss. Since the war he has devoted himself to building up Jacob's Pillow as a combination summer festival of dancing and a "University of the Dance." Current enrollment: 60 boys and girls who study ballet, modern dance, and ethnic dance...
...five-year-old project, which boosted Greece's power output from 170,000 kw. to 345,000 kw., was an outstanding example of international cooperation. Of the $115 million total cost, 27% came from U.S. aid funds, 30% from Italian war-reparations payments, the remaining 43% from Greek funds. Equipment came from all over Europe, e.g., the 3,500 steel transmission towers were made in Italy, the generators came from Switzerland...
...project was badly needed. In 1950, per capita consumption was 50 kw-h compared with neighboring Italy's 600 kwh. Electricity was so scarce that when an Athens housewife used her electric stove, radios went dead and clocks went...