Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plans for the new station have been drawn up by an engineering firm from St. Louis...
...same firm is preparing plans for the extension of the subway line into North Cambridge. It now appears that there will be a new station constructed at Porter Square and another at the intersection of the Alewife Brook Parkway and Massachusetts Avenue...
...long been standard practice to require women to wear bathing caps at communal swimming pools. Reason: stray long hairs tend to clog the filters. But what about the teen-age boys now sporting long tresses that cover their ears, if not their eyes? One firm that manages 100 pools in the Washington area has decided that the only fair and logical thing to do is to apply the rule without regard to sex, is now insisting that a boy with hair like a girl must wear a bathing cap like a girl...
...protested the holding of services in English as well as in European tongues. The bishop likewise alienated conservatives by removing the iconostasis, or screen, which separates the altar from the faithful in Oriental churches, and by shortening Easter services from 4½ to 3½ hours. Elko's firm administrative methods caused further complaint; diocesan clergy accused him of being a ruthless autocrat, who was averse to discussing problems with priests. Although Ruthenians outside the U.S. are permitted to ordain married men as priests, Elko ignored clerics' complaints and stuck to the letter of a papal decree imposing...
...letter to the American Stock Exchange's 573 members, President Ralph Saul last week bluntly warned that "market conditions indicate a serious level of speculative activity." Calling for "firm sales policies and procedures" to spare the public from hazardous stock purchases, he lectured: "Expectations of quick riches based on hunch or rumor provide an unsound reason for investment decisions." The reason for Saul's concern was a surge of trading at the exchange that pushed both prices and volume to alarming heights...