Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second P.B.H. project, the clothing and books a drive, will also extend over the same period...
London, last of the war-devastated metropolises to mend its scars, is about to cover its blitzweeds with bright new stores and office buildings. Plans have been drawn for a Rockefeller Center-like project topped by a 27-story building. Two weeks ago Sir Winston Churchill abolished the controls which have held back reconstruction in the City of London. Business had to wait while materials and labor went first to building homes for homeless Britons-a program which achieved 350,000 new homes in one year...
...Ohio, Union Carbide broke ground for a $32 million plant to turn out titanium sponge. In New Orleans, a $7,000,000 Shell Oil building was nearly ready; nearby Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical got set for a $25 million expansion. Chicago's face was changing, with scores of new projects ranging from a $50 million medical center to the $46 million Lake Meadows slum-clearance project and a $6,000,000 pretzel plant for Nabisco. Nobody who toured the ribboning express roads around Boston could conclude that New England is dying on the vine. Whole new industrial centers are springing...
...free aid proposal follows closely the New England pacifists' project urging the President to send "free quantities of surplus food to China to aid the people now suffering from flood and famine." Butcher hopes that the idea will pick up support, and "help the F.O.R. get on the road again...
Before the new building was constructed we never could have even imagined such a vast project," Rollins said. Another tentative iron in the fire made possible by the merger is the proposal for the Horbarium to join forces with an international botanical association for work on a definitive Plant Encyclopedia. A project like this, according to Rollins, may take 20 years...