Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressman, investor or shipper who might have thought that the Government solved U.S. railroads' financial problems a year ago, when it took over the operation of most passenger trains, has been getting a rude awakening. Congress is now studying six major bills that would extend further help, and industry spokesmen are warning that the legislators must race in order to rescue the nation's rail system from a threatened collapse. They do not seem to be crying wolf; the railroads' plight is bad enough to have won the sympathy of their chief competitors. Truck lines and many...
Harvard's ownership of stock in the Gulf Oil Company helps perpetuate racist policies that extend well beyond Portuguese Angola to wherever on the high seas Gulf tankers sail to places in the United States where Gulf operates refineries at which hiring practices and the nature of the company's community involvement should be seriously questioned...
Francis H. Duehay, dean of admissions and studies at the Education School and chairman of the subcommittee, said that the largest number of residents communicating with his subcommittee urged the City Council to continue and extend Brattlewalk...
Streets are likely to be re-routed. The MBTA Redline may extend to West Cambridge. The John F. Kennedy Library Center, to be built where buses now park across from Kirkland and Eliot Houses, will draw a million new visitors a year to the Square. High rise buildings will stand over Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets, and a mall will occupy half a block adjacent to Holyoke Center...
Outlines of the JFK Center itself are somewhat more cloudy. About two acres of the 11-acre site will be turned over to Harvard for the Kennedy School of Government. A large plaza, to be called Commonwealth plaza in recognition of Massachusett's grant of the MBTA land, will extend over much of the area. At least 600 parking spaces, more likely 1000, will be provided by the Center. The ceremonial entrance to the Center will open at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston...