Word: killian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connecticut's Democratic Governor Ella Grasso was also challenged by her Lieutenant Governor, Robert Killian, who said that he might consider a state income tax. Grasso countered that she would veto such a measure. She also pointed to three straight years of budget surpluses. She trounced Killian 2 to 1 and is favored to win in November against Republican Congressman Ronald Sarasin...
...first time that Crane removed land from the low cost housing market. In a rare move for a university, MIT's Chairman James Killian complied with a Crane request that he help develop Technology Square, now the fourth largest property taxpayer in the city, but partly built on land where low-cost housing was before...
...also Killian who engineered the National Aeronautics and Space Administration deal with Crane that was supposed to bring in $60 million worth of space facilities into a now vacant Kendall Square site. The federal government dropped the proposal...
...even as Crane was working out the Kendall Square deal with Killian and NASA in the early sixties, there were rumblings from within the City Council--rumblings that Crane for the most part failed to detect...
Crane left the city in a mass of confusion. His short-sighted policies, designed for immediate growth, no matter what cost, and for low taxes, ignored a crucial housing shortage and a dearth of blue collar jobs. His alliance with James Killian brought in public sector jobs and suburban white collar research work. But the land where these jobs were located was tax-exempt, of little value to the tax base...