The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.

Fiedler was then technical director of Hitler's super-secret `` Reichenberg project '', which remained unknown to the Allies until after the war.

A crack corps of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into Allied hands.

The AID committee's chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs. Henry Francis Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff members on the project.

allied to them was Gerry, devoting much time to swaying her father, and Joan dismissed all thought of the project and William was unwilling to interfere further.

** Atlas Carver, a South African military jet development project that was cancelled in the 1990s

Instead, the irrigated agriculture project was headed for completion with apparently no prospects for extension beyond 2011.

The project was still pending completion as of Mar 2011.

The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.

During this project he realized that a much more general design, the Analytical Engine, was possible.

Giacometti's work on the project resulted in the four figures of standing women — his largest sculptures — entitled Grande femme debout I through IV ( 1960 ).

* Lyn Evans-particle physicist and project leader of the Large Hadron Collider, the largest science experiment in the world.

Massachusetts State Police searched the offices of Aggregate Industries, the largest concrete supplier for the underground portions of the project, in June 2005.

The world record for the largest concrete pour in a single project is the Three Gorges Dam in Hubei Province, China by the Three Gorges Corporation.

The project has found a total of thirteen Mersenne primes, eleven of which were the largest known prime number at their respective times of discovery.

The project stalled due to difficulties in the work, corruption and other issues, and in 1888, ran out of money when it reached San Pedro Sula, resulting in its growth into the nation's main industrial center and second largest city.

* 1972 – The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.

This is the largest and longest project that she has undertaken so far.

The project is currently available in four languages: Hebrew ( the largest collection ), English, French and Portuguese.

The largest under active consideration is the private sector West Seti ( 750 MW ) storage project which is dedicated to exports.

* Great Manmade River – World's largest irrigation project developed in Libya connecting cities with fossil water

In one of the largest memory project anywhere, The BBC in 2003-6 invited its audiences to send in recollections of the homefront in the Second World War.

Its economy grew at the fastest pace of all the Latin American countries during most of the 1970s as the Paraguayan-Brazilian project, the Itaipu Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric plant, was constructed.

Also under construction are parts of A3-Autostrada Transilvania, which is the largest motorway project in Europe with a length of 588 km from Bucharest to Oradea ( near the Hungarian border ).

OMA Beijing: In Asia, Koolhaas is working with his team on the office ’ s largest project to date, the 575, 000 m2 China Central Television Headquarters ( CCTV ) and Television Cultural Center ( TVCC ), currently under construction in Beijing and due for completion in 2008.

His most famous construction is the Parakrama Samudra, the largest irrigation project of medieval Sri Lanka.

UCSF's Mission Bay Campus, also located in San Francisco, is the largest ongoing biomedical construction project in the world.

During summer 2009, the largest capital improvement project broke ground on the Fayette campus — $ 75 million — which will include a new student center, suite-style housing, and a Liberal Arts academic building.

The two largest elements at Level 3 each represent only 17 % of the total scope of the project.

It focuses on three areas: education ( with the largest educational project in Central Europe, the Prague Student Summit ), research ( at its Research Center ) and international outreach ( currently in Belarus and other countries ).

EPCOT Center was constructed for an estimated $ 800 million to $ 1. 4 billion and took three years to build ( at the time the largest construction project on Earth ).

This project is the largest of its kind to be undertaken by a U. S. community college, yielding around 4. 4 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year and reducing Carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1, 500 tons over its operating lifetime.

The largest project of this type in the world has been in process for centuries in the Netherlands.

At an estimated cost of DKK 21. 4 billion ( 1988 prices ), the link is the largest construction project in Danish history.