Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Migration of the Toad (Bufo Bufo Bufo)"-filled the entire current issue of no less a publication than the British Journal of Herpetology. Said Headmaster D. P. M. Burke proudly: "A valuable educational experience. Just the sort of thing we are trying to encourage at Clayesmore." Next project for the boys: the autumn migration of the toad...
DENVER BUILDING PROJECT by two of President Eisenhower's fishing companions will be one of the biggest in Colorado's history. With other businessmen Bankers Bal F. Swan and Aksel Nielsen, joint owners of the ranch where Ike trout fishes, have formed the Turnpike Land Co. to build a $100 million model community of 6,000 brick houses, shopping centers, parks, schools and churches outside of town, along the turnpike running between Denver and Boulder...
...artist, the size of the project is no matter," Kletzch continued. He said that an artist may consider one flower--or in this case one project--as "no less significant than five miles of formal gardens...
Goody Knight had plans for every thing. He pushed the $1.2 billion state Feather River reclamation project, and he put out $150,000 for a study of smog. He was happy, and so were his staff mem bers: Goody, who used to keep them working far into the night, has been quitting at dinnertime since his recent marriage. His domestic bliss and political success are evident. He is on the friendliest terms with the state legislature, which is Republican-controlled. Goody Knight, rather than his fellow Californian, Vice President Dick Nixon, is likely to go to the 1956 G.O.P. Convention...
Building Pains. A French couple who would rather build than buy a rickety old house applies to the government, waits 15 months while the application is processed through a dozen separate departments before reaching Crédit Foncier, the nationalized credit institution which may help them finance their project. Permission granted, the French couple then has to deal with the guild-conscious French architect and his seven fat handbooks entitled La Série Centrale des Architectes, which lay down exactly what may be done about building a house, in terms suitable for the age of Charlemagne. After the architect...