Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diplomats. Out Asia way. Indonesia's Premier Sastroamidjojo flew back to Djakarta brimming over with gratitude for the fuss Peking's Communists had made over him. In Hanoi, the Viet Minh's Ho Chi Minh, in an interview with the London Sunday Times, produced his own project for smearing up demarcation lines. He proposed a Bandung-like conference of leaders and intellectuals from the "little nations" of Asia and the West not closely associated with what he called imperialist pasts. They could talk over economic and technical cooperation...
Even if Congress turns down the transmission line this year, construction of the Dixon-Yates project will go ahead. There is no need for the line until 1957, when the plant goes into production. By then, Congress might change its mind; if it does not, Dixon-Yates could build the line itself. Said Edgar H. Dixon, whose Middle South Utilities holds 79% of the Dixon-Yates stock: "We have not the remotest thought of turning back...
Last week's 2O-year, 4¾% World Bank loan (in which the Bank of America has a $5,000,000 share) will finance a $20 million irrigation project to triple the annual value of the Catania Plain's agricultural production by 1967 and create 10,000 new farm jobs in the immediate area. Another $30 million will build eight power projects to increase southern Italy's electric generating capacity by one-sixth; the remaining $20 million will help private investors finance seven new factories (fertilizer, fruit processing, cement, chemicals and medicines, pulp and paper, woolens). Said...
...January, an unknown alumnus subscribed $100,000 toward an indoor swimming pool, a project that interested Bingham far more than a litte, and the H.A.A. started action that would culminate in the present I.A.B. Harvard knew so little about indoor pools, however, that questionnaires were sent to several colleges inquiring as to how one went about building and running...
...will join Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, in a three-month investigation of the economic situation in New York City this summer. The investigation is preliminary to a decision on whether to undertake a major research project on the subject, Mason said...