Word: construction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving on to what he called "the response to human concerns," the President proposed a five-year program of federal aid for school construction. He pointed proudly to the fact that almost three out of five U.S. families own their own homes; then he proposed the extension of public housing facilities for low-income families, with specific authority to construct 70,000 new housing units within the next two years. The President bore down heavily upon the national problem of high medical costs: extended voluntary health insurance was essential, he said, to "help reduce the dollar barrier between many Americans...
...building boom that has face-lifted mid-Manhattan (16 skyscrapers currently under construction) has bypassed almost completely the Wall Street financial district at the island's tip. Last week the Street, which has financed much of the uptown modernization, turned to do something about its own grimy buildings and dark canyons. Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman John J. McCloy announced tentative plans to construct a $75,000,000 downtown Rockefeller Center type of development: a 50-to 60-story Chase Bank headquarters flanked by a broad, tree-lined plaza and a 1,000-car garage...
...park. Further, the Ames group attacked the legality of the Corporation's actions. Harvard does not own the Arborctum, they stated, but has held it since 1872 as public trustee for the people of Boston under the will of James Arnold. But the Corporation proceeded with its plans to construct the new Gray Herbarium, appropriating a million dollars from general operating funds for its construction. The building was completed in February, 1954. By July of the same year, the Department of Botany had transferred over 48,000 books and 600,000 specimens from the Arboretum to the new fireproof herbarium...
...motives of this neighborhood's white children, however, differ from what our Southern group suspects. When the St. Louis Board of Education ruled, in compliance with the Supreme Court's decision, that the city's elementary schools would integrate this September, it had to construct completely new school districts. But it gave all children the option of continuing in their old schools in spite of the new districts. Before this fall's integration, the white children in the Field neighborhood had all gone to the segregated Clark school. Most of them, naturally, wanted to continue there, not because Clark...
...only way to clear the streets," he said, "is either to construct some parking places, or to make an example of a few people...