Word: craning
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Councilman Crane has picked up more second choice votes than any of the other candidates, with 138 when the counts closed at 7:30 last night...
Four candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association increased their margins in the City Council race last night. Incumbent Edward Crane '38 leads in the elimination count with 3,356 votes, just 84 votes short of the quota necessary for election under the PR system...
Wall Street professionals blamed the selling spree on a whole catalogue of uncertainties: worries about the state of the defense program, trouble in the Middle East, fears that the Federal Reserve's tight-money policy might be triggering a recession. "Business is not that bad," said James Crane Kellogg III, chairman of the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange. "As a matter of fact, it's good." The facts showed that business, moving at historically high levels, was indeed far better (see below) than business sentiment. Yet Wall Street, which likes to talk...
...reformers, all endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, are led by former Mayor Joseph DeGuglielmo '29 and two-term School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the Harvard School of Education. Other CCA incumbents are Mrs. Pearl K. Wise and former Mayor Edward Crane '35 on the City Council, and Mrs. Catherine Ogden on the School Committee. The CCA, however, has endorsed 13 others, all comparative newcomers to city politics, with the exception of Robert G. Conley, co-ordinator of two Stevenson campaigns, and William Galgay, former 3-term School Committee member...
...looking 4,200-ton contraption in West Germany's Audorf shipyards (on the Kiel Canal) last week, made towlines fast and headed to sea, outward bound for the Persian Gulf, 6,800 miles away. No ordinary barge, the contraption bristled with a 140-ft. derrick, a crane, a heliport, had air-conditioned quarters for 50 men. Built at a cost of $3,500,000, it was the most advanced mobile oil-drilling platform ever built, and a device that its owners, British Petroleum Co. and Compagnie Franchise de Petroles, hope will open up a huge new oilfield...