Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project will be financed with $160,000 collected through the current Radcliffe 10 Year Program...
Near Thule, Greenland, and Clear, Alaska, the U.S. Air Force is quietly building two huge long-range radar stations designed to cover the Communist land mass from the Pacific to Poland and give early warning of Communist missile strikes at a range of 3,000 miles. Name of project: Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS (pronounced be-muse). Cost: $1 billion. The Air Force hopes to complete the Thule station this year, the Clear station in 1960, hopes to get BMEWS operational by the time the Communists are expected to begin deploying sizable intercontinental missile forces...
...prep schools in the U.S. (market value of its endowment: $28 million), announced an ambitious plan for getting on with its business. The school needs $6,060,000, said West Point-educated Headmaster John M. Kemper, and of that amount some $1,000,000 has already been pledged. Biggest project in view is the construction of five dormitories for $2,620,000. Other goals: $1,150,000 for a science building and $850,000 for a creative arts center. Perhaps the most important objective is to set up a salary range for faculty members of from...
...Lederle vaccine has been tried on 148 families in a University of Minnesota housing project, but because highly detailed studies are continuing on the 542 subjects (285 adults, 257 children), only preliminary reports have been made. The gist: children show a full antibody response, as expected; in adults the antibody rise is less marked, may be complicated by earlier infections. Proponents of live-virus vaccines are confident that eventually their one-drop capsules or laced syrups will virtually displace the needle and killed-virus preparations even...
...instead of "giving money to a foreign government to build a project," should hire a private U.S. operator to do the job. The U.S. should also establish an Office of Private Participation, manned by businessmen and Government career men who would "plan for the maximum use of private capital resources on each project and in each country program...