Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tall buildings rise in Europe with a minimum of traffic tie-ups and almost no noise, in pleasant contrast to the bedlam at most building sites in the U.S. Main reason for the difference is the kind of crane builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from...
...Crane now begins his fourth term as mayor. He was first elected to the office in 1950, then again...
...announcing his change, Vellucci noted that Crane had done the same for him on the 13th ballot. "Ballot number 69 responds to ballot number 13 by switching from Alfred E. Vellucci to Edward A. Crane," he said...
...that time Crane had added his vote to those of four independents to give Vellucci a 5-4 majority. But Councillor Bernard Goldberg switched his vote away from Vellucci at the last moment to deprive him of victory...
Vellucci has now figured prominently in each of Crane's last three victories. In both 1960 and 1962 he broke 4-4 deadlocks between independent councillors and the Cambridge Civic Association backed councillors by throwing his lot to the CCA's Crane. Vellucci is technically an independent, because he is not backed...