Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Announcement of the plan evoked immediate and widespread interest from leading businessmen in the U.S. and Latin America. Some 50 business organizations got to work on the project in Latin America. In the U.S., such organizations as the Investment Bankers Association of America, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce of the U.S., the U.S. Inter-American Council and the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce came into the plan as cooperating groups. In addition, the Organization of American States gave its active support...
...sister, the Comet III. But its future is still clouded; safety modifications may keep the new jet off commercial routes until 1960. Another hope is the Bristol Britannia, a long-range, 340-m.p.h. transport with four turboprop engines. BOAC has poured $20 million into the project, ordered ten planes. But the Britannia, too, is a question mark. With little transport experience, Bristol is already 14 months behind schedule, will probably not deliver the first plane until 1960. Furthermore, BOAC has serious doubts whether the plane can compete safely over transoceanic air routes. Though its range is listed...
Each of these plans, if put into effect, would require Harvard student groups and WUS to contribute jointly $1,000 annually. As in the Rural Village Project, Indian students would meet half of the expenses...
...graduate students for certain types of expenses involved in their research. Although not exceeding $100 per person the grants would fill, the report said, "a genuine need for which no provision can be normally made now," unless a student becomes attached to a senior faculty member's own research project...
...stripped. The result was that by the late 1930s the U.S. was in danger of becoming timber-poor, and the lumber industry was under heavy fire from conservationists. Today, lumbermen have a new approach and a new program that promises to produce more trees than ever before. The project: tree farming, under which U.S. forests are as carefully planted, managed and harvested as lettuce and tomatoes. When loggers fell a tree, they make sure a new one grows in its place...