Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Advisory Committee indicated in its 1964 report to the Surgeon General that it "was unable to reach a firm conclusion as to the role smoking plays in causing or precipitating a death from this (coronary heart) disease...
...East Lines, both based in San Francisco, and Seattle's American Mail Lines-would form a combine with an estimated $156 million in annual revenues, $261 million assets and 51 ships (plus eleven more on order) plying mostly the transpacific and Far East trade routes. The new firm, probably to be named American Steamship Lines, would automatically take its place among the world's top steamship companies...
...Tishman's grandfather started the business in 1898 by building and owning tenements in Lower Manhattan. Since Bob, 51, took command of the firm in 1962, he has sold all but two of the 21 rental-housing projects that the company built following World War II, including all its holdings in rent-controlled New York City. The emphasis now is on a different kind of operation. Today the company operates 23 large office buildings, mostly in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Cleveland; it owns more office space (5,775,000 sq. ft.) than the total available in Denver...
Hayes refered to "one councillor" who had been a "virtual dictator" of Cambridge during the term of DeGuglielmo's predecessor, former City Manager John J. Curry '19. Charging the unnamed councillor with "fronting" for a construction firm, Hayes claimed that he had evidence with which to begin legal proceedings...
...resists the temptation to slip him into the New Left cubbyhole and looks beneath the superficialities of speech and manner, Ferber comes forth as a complex, contradictory blend of the pragmatist and idealist, religionist and radical idealogue. His belief in non-violence is firm. His sense of perspective and grasp of social realities make him an exceptional even atypical, member of the New Left. If the government jails him, he just may have the entire prison organized before he leaves...