Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre plot dotted with ten brick buildings a few miles outside Bogota is a privately operated project that one American diplomat calls "the most outstanding example of technical assistance in South America." There last week five grain specialists, with their assistants, painstakingly harvested and examined 30,000 different wheat strains from Canada, Russia, the U.S., Germany, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Mexico, India, while other workers planted experimental fields containing thousands more for harvest and research next year. Some day soon the scientists of Tibaitata Experiment Station hope to find the strains that best combine yield, taste, nutritional quality, disease and insect...
Study & Llanos. The joint Colombia-Rockefeller project, directed by 16 Ph.D.s, has also produced a bumper crop of trained scientific personnel. The U.S. specialists instruct about 100 Colombians at Tibaitata, plus five other Latin Americans nominated by their governments. Another eight project scientists are usually sent to the U.S. on fellowships to take advanced degrees. The program's cost to date: about $12 million, of which $9,500,000 has been supplied by Colombia, the rest by the Foundation...
...year without refueling, it will be able to chart unexplored Arctic shore lines and ocean depths, dump supplies and heavy equipment on islands previously supplied by air alone, serve as a base for weather observations beyond present navigation limits. Said Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton last week: "No single project could do so much for the north...
...Upjohn was analyzing the tea's ingredients. It will be months before Upjohn feels able to announce its findings, at least two years before a new product could reach drugstores. Billie's tea, notes one researcher, contains "gunk" that needs thorough investigation. But Upjohn considers the" project highly worthwhile. Very useful drugs have been found before in unorthodox fashion, e.g., reserpine, the ancient tranquilizer made from India's Rauwolfia plant, which became an antihypertensive drug. A favorable outcome will make Medicine Man Billie a rich...
...disease research. World War II gave the isotopes another use: the atom bomb, which the cyclotron helped make possible by producing purified uranium 235. This achievement by Lawrence, one of the six U.S. scientists appointed to weigh the bomb's possibility, was a green light for the Manhattan Project...