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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, after many years of waiting. Italy has a government willing to pass from the defensive to the offensive in this fight against subversion," said Rome's 11 Tempo. The Cabinet announced one project after another: an extensive public-works program to alleviate Italy's chronic unemployment, a big housing program, a new income-tax law providing six-month prison terms for Italy's notorious tax evaders. But after ten months in office, Premier Mario Scelba's government has failed to get even one of its major proposals enacted into law. In Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Immobilismo | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

POWER-POLICY CHANGE by the Administration will be reflected in the new budget now being prepared. For the first time it will ask for a sizable chunk of money to finance new water projects. Among them: an irrigation plan for the upper Colorado River, and the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to bring water by tunnel from the Colorado River under the continental divide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

Last week Northwest powermen thought they had one answer to the problem. They proposed a huge, international program that could serve as a model for developing the entire Columbia Basin. The project: a dam and power network at Mica Creek, B.C. (see map) that would back up twice as much water as Grand Coulee Dam, serve Canada and the U.S. with a whopping 3,000,000 kw. of new power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Whirlpool on the Columbia | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...reason for many of the Center's caldrons of unfilled needs is found in an ever-draining container--the University's pocketbook. "Where are you going to get the money?" Dean Bunduy has asked. Certainly a large endowment does not mean available funds for every justified project. To place new lockers in Dudley's basement would take $12,000 and even the modest addition of a pool table would cost $750. A complete renovation or Dudley, including indirect lighting, painted concrete, partitioned areas, and murals on the wall would require on outlay of around $50,000, according to Architects Collaborative...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Commuter's Center: A Home Is No House | 12/14/1954 | See Source »

...project for harnessing the atom to peaceful uses was laid before the 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers, who gathered in Manhattan last week for their annual convention. The plan, as laid down by General Dynamics Corp. Chairman John Jay Hopkins, called for the "financing . . . of atomic reactors in the power-short . . . areas of the world by American private enterprise and the American Government working together with friendly national governments." Hopkins, whose firm built the atomic submarine Nautilus and is now working on a second, the Sea Wolf, warned that industrialists have played too small a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Atoms Abroad | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

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