Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of the year-end reviews is to wrap up the economic developments of the entire year and project them into an estimate of what may be expected in the year to come. This is how some of our last year's predictions stood up against the news of 1954: we predicted a production of 5,500,000 autos; the final figure is 5,500,000. We said there would be 3,500,000 unemployed; the peak figure was 3,725,000. For refrigerators we estimated 3,500,000 units would be produced; 3,425,000 units were turned...
Work on this year's review and economic estimate for 1955 got under way in November, under the direction of Senior Editor Joe Purtell. Associate Editor Osborn Elliott, writer of the story, and Jane Meyerhoff. the researcher assigned to the project, began drafting the first of the detailed queries that went out to TIME correspondents...
...POWER PROJECT on the St. Lawrence, part of a joint U.S.-Canadian plan to develop the seaway, will he financed by one of the biggest bond issues ever. The U.S. share alone, which will go on public sale this week, will come to $330 million. The Aluminum Co. of America has already agreed to buy about one-third of the U.S. output for its upstate New York plants...
...Russian immigrant's son who began selling real estate at the age of 17, now controls a real-estate firm that grosses $40 million annually, is one of the ten biggest in the U.S. Like Manhattan's William Zeckendorf, Rubloff is a man for grandiose projects, built Chicago's $15 million Evergreen Park shopping center, planned and redeveloped North Kansas City, Mo., launched Chicago's $200 million project to make a "magnificent mile" near the Loop, the city's most spectacular shopping district...
...President Edgar H. Dixon of Middle South Utilities Inc. furnished the financing details of the $105 million project. The new company (official name: Mississippi Valley Generating Co.) expects to sell 79% of a $5.500.000 common stock issue to Middle South Utilities Inc., 21% to Southern Co., headed by Eugene A. Yates. The remaining $99,915,000 (95% of the plant's cost) would be borrowed in banknotes and bonds.*As for profits, said Dixon, the combine would collect a return of 8.98% on its $5,500,000 risk capital if construction costs are in line with...