Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the confusion, the Cabinet did its best to get a few things done. It drew up a plan to replace Batista's corrupt lottery with a lottery-bond program designed to help finance a $100 million housing project.* Last week, an accounting of the Cuban treasury's cash reserves was finally completed. Discovery: in five years. Dictator Batista squandered $423 million, leaving the country with only $110,710,947, or some $60 million less than the legal minimum. To rebuild the reserves, a system of import licenses was clamped on a long list of goods-with...
Last week the National Park Service prepared to add a final touch to capital culture. By 1965, it hopes to restore Ford's Theater, which failed after Lincoln's assassination, was long used as a museum. Needed for the project...
...pilot project, which is to be completed next November, is being financed by a $56,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. The Institute has promised an even larger sum to carry out the final study...
...project directors are finding the preliminary planning "touchy," it has been generally indicated, but not because of any questioning of the value of their study. Rather, it is because of the critical discussion of methods which must precede the study. Among the difficult factors listed by Faculty members involved in the project are the complexity of the material, and difference of approach between those who would study "data" and others who would concentrate on "dynamics...
...Faculty has set up an advisory committee for the project. The members are Dean Monro, Master Leighton, professors Stouffer and Riesman, and William G. Perry, Director of the Bureau of Study Council...