Word: killians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...city councilor Francis H. Duchas '55 recalls, the coalition Crane led was built around keeping taxes down and forcing unrestrained development, and was little interested in provided low-income housing that Cambridge's blue collar, poor and elderly could use. But MIT, under chairman James Killian, feeling the heat from MIT's bulging tax-exempt holdings persuaded Pusey to help form the Cambridge Corporation in 1965 university backed vehicle to support the building of low income housing...
...delegates at the Democratic state convention in Hartford nominated Grasso as the party's candidate for governor. She has been the leading contender in a relatively issueless race since well before she announced her candidacy last January. Two weeks ago her major rival, State Attorney General Robert Killian, gave up what looked like an increasingly hopeless fight against her. He agreed to join the ticket as nominee for lieutenant governor...