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Think back again to the physical side of the City in 1960. When I was elected the new city hall was to have been built on the site of the old Boston Post on Washington St.; the new Federal Building was to have been in Back Bay next to the Trinity Church on that block where the new John Hancock 60-story skyscraper will be and the State had some idea that they might want to build something, at sometime, somewhere. The first thing we did was to go to Washington and change the decisions which had already been made...
...until the merged roads include the New Haven in their system. But eventual savings from joint operations may reach $100 million a year. And additional revenue sources are being tapped. Last week Perlman announced that a lease agreement had been signed with a British investment group which plans to build an office building over the Grand Central Terminal in New York. The lease for the building will return $3,500,000 a year in rent to the railroad...
Credit goes to former Air Canada Sales Promotion Manager Lawrence J. Adams, 50, who took the reins of the company in 1958, when it had a single rental location-which was losing money. Within four months, Adams had picked up $2,000,000 worth of property across Canada to build a network of parking lots, rental depots and garages. By 1962, the company was breaking even. In 1963 it bought an Edmonton real estate firm that became a subsidiary called Avord Holdings Ltd. Since then, Avord has built hotels and office and apartment buildings in Canada's major cities...
...Americans, this sounds easy enough; just let free trade take its course, and the nations will develop. Western foreign aid programs rest on this assumption: give the poor countries a start, and soon they will be able to build themselves by trade...
...absurd to think that any rich nation can survive when most of the world is starving," a Belgian diplomat said. "No one will be safe unless we build a solid middle-class of countries...