Word: landed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...goes on, but it drags and every day the call from the other side is more insistent. This is something that no Y. M. C. A., no Knights of Columbus, can handle: neither State nor City can do it, only the Government can. For it means war measures, taking land, fixing prices, and holding them, preventing land-speculation and every other form of robbery and injustice which in the end comes back on labor; it means building houses, schools, hospitals, theatres and churches; giving its workers as it gives its fighters the best conditions possible for the special job they...
...Marine Flying Force operates in conjunction with the Navy, but it flies only land machines at this time and no change to seaplanes is anticipated. A small number of application blanks, and further details about enrollment, may be obtained at the CRIMSON Office, or by mail from Major-General Commandant, U. S. Marine Headquarters, Washington...
...meeting of the University Board of Overseers yesterday, decided after an inspection of the Cambridge Common and two other sites for the new buildings of the Radio School, soon to be erected, that the rapid growth of the school would necessitate the taking over of all the available land by the Government. He was accompanied on his tour of inspection by Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, U. S. N., commandant of the First Naval District, and Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel F. Ayer '00, commandant of the Naval Radio School...
...result of Secretary Roosevelt's decision, work on the buildings will commence as soon as possible. The Common will be closed and it is probable that accommodations for one complete unit of the school will be erected there. The greater part of the Andover Theological Seminary land and the Palfrey Estate will be used for an instruction shed, and such additional recreation facilities as become necessary. The Government expects to expend a sum of $350,000 on the construction of these barracks and school buildings...
...banker once said, "If I could place to the credit of each man and woman in the community a savings deposit of one dollar I could make thrifty thousands where there have been only thousands of spenders, and I could build the greatest bank per population in the land...