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...Davenport Inc. of Cambridge manufactured the first railway cars in the United States, marking the establishment of the rails as a primary mode of transportation...
Cambridge Police Chief Leo Davenport told the council that police were assigned around-the-clock to the area and added that arrests had increased in recent months...
...Davenport told the council he planned to hire a consultant from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to review staffing levels in areas around the city, including Central Square...
...plunged up to 40% because of profit taking and fears over the $227 billion oil windfall profits tax that President Carter signed into law last week. But investments from such savvy money havens as New York, California and Europe continue to flow into Colorado. Says SEC Regional Administrator Robert Davenport: "The Denver market operates on the 'greater fool' theory. Irrespective of a company's merits, people will buy its stock because they reckon a bigger fool will come along later to buy it at a higher price...
...Davenport learned so fast that he became a member of the top U.S. sled, as had Jeff Gadley, 24, a former decathlon man. Davenport and Gadley will be the first two American blacks ever to compete in the Winter Olympics. If they win, giving the U.S. its first gold medal in bobsledding since 1948, Davenport will gain a further distinction: he will become only the second man in history to win gold medals in both the Winter and Summer Olympics...