Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neil proposes to construct a door from the H.D.C. room into a hallway that belongs to the Hygiene Department's Grant Study Center, which shares "Big Tree." The Club thus hopes to comply with the law which requires "two egresses" for "places of assembly...
Said Engstrom last week at a Chicago conference: "Electronics, with its unlimited ability to count, remember and control ... is ... literally asking to take over certain duties which have been performed by men's minds-thinking processes. What man can conceive, comprehend and perform, he will be able to construct in electronic systems to do his bidding, and the electronic performance will be at least as effective as the human performance . . . The electronic system will sense, react, interpret, compute, act and control. It will do this using what is the equivalent of thinking...
...corporation last week was planning to move its headquarters out of noisy, expensive, traffic-jammed Manhattan. Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. said it would buy a 280-acre estate in Westchester County, 20 miles from the big city, provided that zoning laws are changed to permit Carbide to construct office buildings costing $12,500,000 for its 2,500 head-office employees. The company thought that its workers would be happier in the Westchester hills than in "the canyons of New York...
Said New York's Democratic Representative William E. Miller: "Army engineers construct nothing . . . They supervise . . . and they would probably have the people who are now employed by Niagara Mohawk to construct [the project] anyway." As a clincher, private powermen said they would impartially serve all customers, while the federal development would give more favorable contracts to cooperative and municipally operated utilities, at present servicing only 3% of the state's electric customers...
...think this means we will probably end up with a room of our own somewhere," Hammer said last night, "but I doubt whether we will construct a club building now." The Yale Club's former lodgings on Beacon Hill were closed several years ago, he said, due to high costs and lack of member support...