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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planning. Although their economies are relatively uncomplicated, problems do arise in the collection of data, according to Mrs. E. W. Gilboy, assistant director of the Research Project and lecturer in Economics. Another difficulty for them is collecting funds for purchase of the giant computers necessary to construct the chart after the data is secured. Spain, which set up a table several years ago, had to send information to Italy, where computer work was done on Italian machines...
...Project's work is not to construct actual tables. The cost of collecting the extremely large amount of data is beyond the scope of so small a group. The 25 Faculty members in the project conduct basic research, investigating different facets of Leontief's model. Among the studies now in progress is one on technological change and the methods through which new techniques are diffused through industry--this is coordinated with Leontief's work on a dynamic model. Application of the table to regional problems is being perfected; while various sectors of the economy--particularly household consumption and natural resources...
...concerned with academic reform within the College. The College should be the foundation on which the rest of the University is built, he declared. If the College is "not to be absorbed by the secondary school on the one side and the professional school on the other, we must construct a new solidarity to replace that which is gone...
...planners speak of "emerging peoples") lack the distribution system necessary to get large quantities of free food to the people who need it-partly because their governments have not yet accepted moral responsibility for ensuring that every citizen should get an adequate diet. "And if the U.S. offered to construct such a distribution system," adds the official drily, "I do not think such men as Nehru and his Cabinet ministers would take kindly to our giving them a lesson in morals...
Another problem arises from the difficulty of expansion. To be economically viable and to serve metropolitan Boston effectively, the MTA should construct new lines, perhaps utilizing railroad rights of way. The Authority did expand successfully over the tracks of a former narrow gauge railroad to East Boston and Revere, thus starting subway service to an expanding part of the city. A second major attempt at expansion has not succeeded, however. For $10.6 million, the MTA purchased and renovated completely a branch of the New York Central Railroad, and within two days after service started, the new line carried four times...