Word: united
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas last week, the City Council ignored grumblings of a delegation of whites, voted unanimously to let 36-year-old Bill Cothrum, a white contractor, build a 408-unit Negro housing development on land adjacent to a white section. "We talk of doing things to house the Negroes," argued one of Cothrum's supporters, "but I don't blame them for looking at us with distrust in their eyes...of course we have to make sacrifices." The city of Jackson, Miss. opened a new $500,000 park for Negroes, then voted a $350,000 bond issue to build...
...White Sands, N. Mex. last month, a test Viking climbed only 51^ miles and landed ten miles away. But this first trial flight was intended to test the controls and propulsion unit, not to try for an altitude record. The Viking's designers claim that the new rocket, as produced at present, will reach something like 190 miles. An improved model, now in preparation, may reach 225 miles...
...hospital is the first unit in the $8,500,000 cancer center which will be completed in 1951. The second unit will be the Atomic Energy Commission's Argonne Cancer Research Hospital. Also under construction are a $2,200,000 synchrocyclotron and a 400-million electron-volt cyclotron in the new Accelerator Building. The complete project will be the first university center devoted exclusively to the study of cancer...
...adage that a Yale game can make or break any Crimson team's season will be clearly demonstrated tomorrow when Harvard's tennis team meets a strong Eli unit at Soldiers Field...
...spin themselves into the mud, as round wheels do. They are "geared to the mud": the pointed ends dig into it while the flat sides, whose curvature is like that of a much larger round wheel, support the weight of the vehicle. Inventor Kopczynski says his experimental unit has about twice as much pulling power as if its wheels were round...