Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lent about $2,400,000 to Reliance Homes of Lester, Pa. The money was' to be used to finance mass production of a low-cost, ribbed-aluminum, factory-built house. The three-bedroom house "package" came in seven sections, could be assembled on the site by a crane and five workmen (see cut) in 1½ hours. But Reliance found that the house, boxlike though it was, cost around $10,000 when erected near a big city like Washington. After making only 134 houses in five months, Reliance closed down. Last week, like a merry uncle devoted...
...Keck in 1934. Harry Truman had been unable to use it or give it away, and it had languished in Keek's studio for 15 years. But as a gift from a President it had become eminently acceptable and last week a crowd of 1,500 gathered to crane at its donor...
Edward A. Crane '35 was elected Mayor of Cambridge Monday by the Council at Cambridge City Hall. Crane, who received the largest number of votes in the election last November, was given the office on the first ballot. Two years ago when the Plan E government elected its first mayor, the voting took 1321 ballots...
Horatio Alger, his rags-to-riches message in popular bloom, had died the year before. Stephen Crane, who had seen more of the rags than the riches and had written Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, was about to die at 28. Pessimism and doubt were not hard to find on Jan 1, 1900, but the world, and especially the U.S., sided with Alger. It looked forward to the 20th Century with a degree of confidence unequaled by any previous age and unregained since. Paced fast or slow, progress was sure, limitless, irreversible. Virtue walked with progress; they fed each...