Word: hancock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Hancock cast his eye upon the Charles, agreed to pay Harvard 200 pounds a year for supplanting its ferry, and four years later the Charles had a bridge again...
...venture proved so successful that within five years other men had plans afoot to build another bridge upstream. By this time Hancock was governor. He didn't dare veto the bridge outright. Instead, he did what he considered the next best thing. He required it to be built near the Pest House-the infirmary for contangious diseased-and required the builders to pay Harvard 300 pounds per year as a fee. The proprietors regarded the first condition as perfectly convenient and, as to the second, they took their case to the general court which agreed they should pay Harvard...
...minority-owned insurance firms will each assume responsibility for five percent of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's group life insurance, which is now handled entirely by the John Hancock Co., an MIT official said yesterday...
...CARROLL # 512" was waiting at the curb while the rush-hour traffic crept forward in the darkness at the foot of the John Hancock Building. The press bus was on time, if I wasn't, and its fog-covered windows held forth some hope of reportorial warmth inside, even if those 14 black letters and numerals on its side dimmed my hopes that this would be a presidential campaign press junket worthy of Tim Crouse, Hunter Thompson or Teddy White...
...John Hancock Awards special citation to Associate Editor James Grant for his overview of world inflation, "Seeking Antidotes to a Global Plague" (April...