Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points in this program are: 1) Federal and local subsidy for construction of 200,000 housing units per year for two years. 2) Federal allocation of funds for research into housing problems. 3) Gradual reduction of rent controls to reduce the risk in construction of rental housing. 4) Funds for large scale urban re-development. 5) Establishment of machinery to stimulate replacement building in periods of economic depression in order to stabilize the construction industry and thereby produce lower construction costs...
Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn, director of the Russian Research Center, returned from Paris Sunday following a meeting of UNESCO's Tensions Project committee...
...This research center, closely associated with the Psychological Laboratories, was established in 1940 to conduct studies on problems of hearing and sound for the armed forces...
...whose Princeton '32 classmates voted him most likely to succeed and third "most pious") was not sure how long he would keep all of his McDonnell stock. The paradoxical reason: the once risky McDonnell bet now looked too safe & sound. As head of Rockefeller Brothers, Inc., a unique research and investment house, Laurance and his brothers are only interested in enterprises that offer genuine risk. When the companies are well established, the brothers think most of their money should be taken out for other speculative ventures...
...last week's Science Magazine, Dr. D. B. Shimkin of Harvard's Russian Research Center reported on a uranium-prospecting trip he has made through Russian geological literature. Pay dirt, he said, has been found all the way from the Ukraine to far eastern Siberia...