Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These fears have failed to materialize, and despite its expansion, the HSA has not interfered with business in the Square. The corporation "has walked on egg shells in that area," as Monro phrased it. Consequently, the agency has received a fair amount of cooperation from local businessmen...
...Secretary of the Carpenter's District Council of Boston stated that the present demands were settled upon three months ago, and that 24 companies in the Boston area have already signed the new memorandum on wages. At least 100 other companies have not signed the agreement...
...series of explosions that broke the vessel's back. An Indonesian corvette, anchored protectively at the harbor mouth, took a direct hit, burst into flames from stem to stern. The Royal Dutch Shell Co. hastily shut down its installations at Balikpapan, signaled oil tankers to clear the area...
Last week Optometrist Newton K. Wesley of Chicago's Eye Research Foundation announced an ingenious solution: a bifocal contact lens with the distant-vision prescription in the center, enclosed by a surrounding area that corrects for closeup reading. Rotation therefore makes no difference. Wesley, who tried the first pair on himself, reports that 65 people who have worn the new lenses for as long as five months are enthusiastic. If they look straight ahead with eyes wide open, they see through the center lens. When they look down, the contact lens rises, so that they see through the outer...
Quincy House construction may be stopped by a strike this morning for the second time in a month. At 8 a.m., nearly 6000 carpenters employed in the Greater Boston area will walk off their jobs in a movement for higher wages...