Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tail of the new money. Store clerks and customers bickered over conversions, and some stores, having advertised in the new dollars, switched back to sterling when business fell off. Commuters, confused by small-change transactions on buses, tossed their odd pennies out of the windows while crossing Sydney Harbor Bridge. Most of the country's 500,000 coin-handling and tabulating machines, from pay telephones to cash registers, still have to be changed, a move that will be made over the next two years with about $60.5 million in aid from the government...
...Aces." In formal sessions and shirtsleeve seminars that ranged from Camp Smith, high in the sparkling Hawaiian Hills over Pearl Harbor, to breezy hotel suites in Honolulu, the Americans and their Vietnamese counterparts spoke of crops and classrooms, highways and hospitals. The President let it be known that he expected the talk to be followed by action. After posing for pictures with Ky and Chief of State General Nguyen Van Thieu at Camp Smith, he steered them into the office of Pacific Commander Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp Jr. for a ten-minute talk. There he told them that while...
When, in 1840, Cunard established the first steamer passenger line in America, Boston was its natural choice of the terminus. In 1966, only 34 scheduled passenger ships will leave Boston Harbor and nearly all of these are cruises to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Gone too are the coastal shuttle boats to New York (remember Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8?) which did in a more leisurely age what the Logan shuttles do now. At every turn, Boston Harbor evokes its past, not in the solid romantic way of Beacon Hill, but in a mood of decline and acceptance...
...that the New Boston has turned from a seditious idea to a Babbitt cliche, how is the former lifeblood of the city faring beneath the limelight of the Pru? It is not faring well. Boston's major problem as a harbor is usually summed up in two words: New York. Boston has never really recovered from those years in the mid-1800's when the upstart Knickerbockers took away not only the prestige, but most of the business, of the foreign trade. When domestic trade came to be handled almost entirely by railroads and trucks, Boston had to compete...
...torn down to make way for a Trade and Transportation Center which features accommodations and showrooms for visiting businessmen, very similar in concept to the proposed Trade Center in New York. Baltimore, whose port has achieved huge growth rates in recent years, took an old airport harbor that had fallen into disuse and rebuilt it as a giant unloading facility. The MPA is now planning a similar project at8CRIMSON Roger W. Sinnott...