Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Public was operating well in the red, and state banking officials began casting around for a merger partner to save what was left. Early last week, a proposed merger with Detroit's solid, $498 million Bank of the Commonwealth unraveled when Public's accountant up and quit over "disagreements" with his bosses. Michigan State Banking Commissioner Charles Slay called it all "the damnedest mess I've ever seen...
...Today's atomic installations go up in units large enough to light whole cities, or even states. At Lake Keowee, S.C., Duke Power Co. is building a $157 million plant with Babcock & Wilcox reactors that will generate 1,664,000 kw.-enough for South Dakota, Vermont and Nevada. Commonwealth Edison is busy expanding its Dresden plant 50 miles southwest of Chicago into an 1,800,000-kw. complex capable of serving a population equal to that of Baltimore and San Francisco combined. As an increasing number of power companies do, Atlantic City Electric, Philadelphia Electric, Delmarva Power & Light...
Pusey's talk followed a welcome from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Governor Volpe, the first of five speakers to greet the audience of 4000 after the Chief Marshall, with red robes and a five-foot high golden mace, had declared, "The ceremony is convened...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts will build the $4.3 million plant directly adjacent to the Boston University Bridge. A $1 million Federal demonstration grant will aid in the financing of the project...
...iron, chrome and asbestos? The Commonwealth was not impressed. Nor were the members pacified when Wilson upped the ante to include a mandatory oil blockade; after all, one mandatory oil blockade was supposedly already in force, but Rhodesia had somehow always managed to get plenty of oil. In the end, there was not much the Commonwealth could do about it. Before they went home, however, the leaders of 16 former British possessions in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean broke ranks with Wilson, made use of the official conference communique-traditionally a bland document saying nothing-to register their disagreement...