Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee decided to go Berlioz one better and use ballet to dance out the love he did not put into words. The old Marquis de Cuevas, 70, the world's biggest-spending balletomane, agreed to contribute his own ballet company to the project; the chorus and orchestra of the Concerts Colonne were engaged to work under Conductor Jean Martinon. The Louvre authorities, fearful of fire, were tougher to persuade: they held out for a full month, until the committee guaranteed to fireproof the outdoor stage, to station a fire truck at the entrance and a fireboat alongside...
POWER REPORT by a Hoover Commission task force this week will recommend that the U.S. get out of the public power business as soon as possible. The task force, headed by Jones & Laughlin Chairman Ben Moreell, wants the Government to sell off its projects (including TVA and Bonneville), boost rates to the level of private rates, and make those who benefit from irrigation, flood-control and other water-resource projects pay more of the cost. In no future project should the U.S. contribution through loans total more than...
After listening for hours to Carter eloquently describe a project to make Fort Worth a seaport by dredging the often-dry Trinity River the 350 miles from Fort Worth to the Gulf of Mexico, his good friend Will Rogers gestured for silence and whispered: "Listen! I hear those seagulls now." Once Carter emerged from an all-afternoon session with President Franklin Roosevelt and announced triumphantly: "I got my five feet." Carter had talked F.D.R. into adding five feet on to the Government's proposed mile-long Convair plant, because Tulsa was about to get an aircraft plant a mile...
...started planting it, growing olives, plums, lemons, bananas, kumquats, corn and orchids. Impressed by the possibilities of tropical agriculture, he was unable to resist taking on CAFE'S lands when the chance came along in 1953. He resigned from Anderson, Clayton to work full-time on the new project...
None of this is likely to happen for a considerable time. Work with ACTH is slow, difficult and expensive because of the scarcity of the material. Financed by the U.S. Public Health Service, Eli Lilly Laboratories and the Lasker Foundation, Dr. Li's project took five years, cost $250,000 and consumed the pituitary glands of 360,000 sheep. Many more sheep will have to be dissected before a simplified form of ACTH becomes a standard item on the druggists' shelves...