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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commission, expects the project will pay for itself in 35 years. Production is on the way up in the seven farm units already operating at Aarey. Ten more units will be opened this month. Eventually, Milk Commissioner Dara Khurody, Desai's partner in the project, hopes to build an agricultural college at Aarey...
...some smaller U.S. cities, sparrows are still plentiful. There they have solved their food problem by a kind of inverse commuting. True to their urban traditions, they build their nests in town. In the mornings they fly out to the country to forage in grainfields and barnyards. Then back they commute, full-fed, for the brawling social life in town...
Last week Detroit's Scandinavian Symphony musicians were up to really big doings. They moved into the Masonic Temple's 4,500-seat main auditorium, and more than half the seats were filled. They also pulled in some new musicians to build the orchestra up to a big-sounding 94 pieces. They bowed and blew their way through Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony No. 2, then wound things up with resounding performances of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor and Sibelius' Finlandia. As usual, they mingled with the audience afterward, but this time they...
...milk-processing plant. In Canada, Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. was developing the rich iron-ore deposits in the Ungava area of Northern Quebec and Labrador, a project that may cost $200 million. Automaker Henry J. Kaiser had landed a $2,500,000 contract with Israel to build an auto assembly plant in Haifa. In Latin America, considered an "undeveloped" area by Point Four planners, some of the biggest U.S. companies were hard at work. In Venezuela, U.S. Steel Corp. had discovered ore deposits of higher iron content than Mesabi's; it planned to spend at least...
...price," wrote Loeb in the current issue of the monthly Investor, "was too high to have paid Walter P. Chrysler to go to work for the obscure and failing Maxwell-Chalmers Corp. and build it up into one of the big three motormakers. No low figure, paid the managements of the smaller independents that at the same time fell by the wayside, could possibly have been a bargain...