Word: project
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund, which also honors one of Miss Bullard's brothers, will be used at the Medical School for "the advancement of research in neurological development." This grant was made directly to the Department of Neurology; it was not made for any specific project...
...railroad strike and jailing the leaders for indefinite terms. More surprising, LÓpez Mateos has shed the suspicious isolationism traditional to Mexican Presidents. After a friendly trip to the U.S. and Canada, he is seriously considering a U.S. request for a tracking station, as a part of Project Mercury, on Mexico's west coast. Soon he will visit Venezuela and Brazil, and he is thinking of a later visit to Moscow and other European capitals...
...first man shot into space must have a good chance of getting down alive One necessary precaution is some way saving him in case the launching rocket misbehaves soon after leaving the ground. Project Mercury, the National Aeronatics and Space Administration's man space program, plans to accomplish by a rocket-pushed escape device, signed to blast man and capsule free. I week NASA tested this mechanism...
...night, found that plant profits were often exorbitant. In his lifelong pursuit of facts, he uncovered some strange ones, e.g., a striptease show produced at intervals by the Baltimore Social Security Board. Occasionally he blundered: he urged a reporter to expose a crackpot big-spending scheme called the Manhattan Project six months before the atom bomb was dropped...
...successful, the project, called Tiros, will provide meteorologists with enough pictures to reconstruct cloud patterns ove ra large portion of the earth. This will enable them to quickly spot developing storms and cold fronts...