Word: constructional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are two possible solutions, neither of which will satisfy everyone concerned. The College could find a suitably large space, and construct an adequate center, once and for all. Such a center would accommodate every commuter, and provide an attractive plant for their use. Or the University might close the present Center, and allow commuters to become members of the Houses, sharing House facilities and activities...
...with our agricultural surpluses. Western Europe is far more interested in flour and fertilizer than in powdered eggs and blue-dyed potatoes. Much of ECA's value, both political and economic, has come from its willingness--and ability--to send Western European countries the goods they require to re-construct...
Prospects of a skyscraper city, the profitable place for a subway system, were thwarted from the start; the mud banks didn't have any rock base on which to construct high buildings. While stony Manhatten Island packs over 85,000 people to the square mile with more being squeezed in every day, Boston manages only 18,000 and the figure is not going up. Inexpensive operation of a transit system in decentralized Boston is impossible. MTA authorities chose the fairest way out of their deficit problem when they hiked the fare from ten to fifteen cents...
Like a patient sitting in a doctor's anteroom while the specialists discuss his case, the U.S. public last week sat outside while the President, his military, scientific and diplomatic advisers debated whether to construct the hydrogen bomb, the most powerful explosive weapon the world has yet dreamed...