Word: projects
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...others commented on folk slang in general and enclosed clippings from newspapers about TIME'S mention of the word. Every week readers have their say on subjects ranging from National Affairs all through the sections of the magazine. Currently we are welcoming readers' nominations in our annual project of selecting the Man of the Year...
Intricacy & Intrigue. For offended Japanese politicians, kicking out Shigeru Yoshida has long been a desirable but redoubtable project. Since the war, Yoshida's Liberal (actually conservative) Party has won five general elections: big business gives them ample campaign funds, and the farmers, pleased with high rice prices, give the Liberals their decisive popular vote. Within his Liberal Party, the Premier, who delights in political intricacy, has appointed or reshuffled no fewer than 104 Cabinet ministers so that no one might gather sufficient power to unseat...
Faint Beginnings. Fermi fled from Mussolini's tyranny and reached the U.S. n time to become a key man in the atom-bomb project. Many honors came to Fermi, but they did not make him less be-oved by his colleagues and students. His ife after the squash-court event was omething of an anticlimax (it could not lave been otherwise), but it was happy and productive. He had a zest for life (skiing, swimming, mountain climbing) as ell as for knowledge...
PRIVATE POWER won another round in the fight over whether the Idaho Power Co. or the Government will develop the Northwest's turbulent Snake River (TIME, May 18, 1953). Lawyers for the Federal Power Commission, which must approve any project on the Snake, have recommended that the Idaho Power Co. be given the job because it will produce almost the same amount of power (although much less flood control) at one-third the cost...
NEGRO HOUSING PROJECT in New Orleans will be one of the biggest and most luxurious Negro developments in Southern history. Pontchartrain Park Homes, Inc. will soon start work on a $15 million, two-year project to build 1,000 modern homes around a community park with an 18-hole golf course, swimming pool and stadium. Price range, which reflects Negroes' improved economic standing: $10,000 to $25,000, with many houses including air conditioning...