Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy last week announced contracts to build a radio telescope costing $60 million. The project has two defense purposes: 1) the telescope's enormous dish antenna, over 400 ft. in diameter, can act as a beam transmitter and bounce powerful radio signals off the moon. When they return after 2.6 sec., they can be received with good freedom from jamming at any place on earth where the moon is in the sky; 2) there is also a worthwhile possibility that the great telescope, which concentrates radio waves as a big optical telescope concentrates light waves, will be able...
...Louis has more than prosaic microfilm. Father Lowrie J. Daly, associate professor of history, who first proposed the ambitious project, was so struck by the overpowering beauty of many of the works selected that he decided to make 4.000 additional 2-in. by 2-in. color slides to supplement the 35-mm. microfilm collection...
...project was launched in 1945, when local merchants pressed the city to do something drastic for the slum area. It took until 1952 for the city to condemn the land and put it up for sale, but no builders would buy, because the city's plans for the project seemed too high-class for the moderate rents it wanted to charge. Finally, in 1954, a group of citizens, ranging from Henry Ford to the U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, obtained a 90-day option. With James W. Bell, Detroit City Planner, as coordinator, the group raised...
...City Council will vote on Monday on approval of the Riverview Redevelopment Project, a proposal to restore a 21/2-acre plot on Mount Auburn St. adjoining Sparks...
Action on the $349,667 project was put off last week by a 5-4 vote after five councilors had given roll call approval to the plan. Councilor Watson, however, changed his vote from approval to postponement when Councilor Wise persisted in her objections to the proposal...