Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Herald reported that the State Department of Public Works has officially approved the Brookline-Elm St route for the eight-lane highway. This path would pass within two blocks o Central Square and displace from 900 to 1500 families...
...Common Market partners can go. For supranational machinery is not an idealistic luxury but a necessity for the continuing growth of the Market. Already, for example, there is a clamor to harmonize business taxes among the Six-the old national systems have become an impediment to intramural trade. Some central authority must increasingly arbitrate and enforce common rules and laws beyond the sovereign confines of the member states...
...last week to a Miami conference on tropical oceanography, were derived from samples of water vapor he collected in September during harrowing "hurricane hunter" plane flights through Betsy, the storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Though the amount of tritium in atmospheric water vapor over the central Atlantic and the Caribbean is usually from eight to ten times the quantity in sea water, the concentration in the samples Ostlund collected decreased as the plane approached the storm center. In the vapor in the cloud wall surrounding the storm's eye, for example, the tritium content...
Decio started in the garage behind his childhood home in Elkhart, which is next to-and on the wrong side of-the New York Central Railroad tracks. His father, an Italian immigrant grocer, sank some savings into mobile homes in 1951, but did poorly and begged son Art to try either to rescue or liquidate the small company. Decio, then a steel salesman, put in $3,200 of his own, recruited three friends and started to work...
Some of the millionaires, of course, like to indulge expensive tastes. Walter Davis, 42, of Odessa, Texas, saw a need for a trucking business to haul oil from out-of-the-way wells to central pipelines, borrowed $5,000 and built a business that has earned him at least $7,000,000; now he lives in a $700,000 house and enjoys gambling $100,000 a weekend on college football games. Even those who are less flamboyant like to live well: John Diebold has a 16th century living room that was transported stick by stick from Sussex, England; Pittsburgh Theater...