Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit, however, ignores one large piece of land that the University hopes to acquire, the 13 1/2 acre area across Boylston St. from Eliot House now occupied by Metropolitan Transit Authority carbarns and storage yards. In February the University disclosed that it had made a "firm offer" for the property, promising the MTA $1 million over the "market value" of the land...
...carbarn facilities were still very much in use, and there was no real indication that the MTA had any intention of selling the land, or even the air rights over it. Nevertheless, the possibility that expansion of the subway system might require relocation of the facilities evidently prompted Harvard to get its bid in early...
Reaction in the City Council, the State Legislature, and the press ranged from high praise to charges of a "land grab" and demands that Harvard, whose facilities are tax-exempt, should stop taking over valuable Cambridge property...
...White men did not work; they merely wrote secret signs on scraps of paper, for which they were given shiploads of goods . . . Plainly the goods must be made for Melanesians somewhere, perhaps in the Land of the Dead. The Whites, who possessed the secret of the cargo, were intercepting it and keeping it from the hands of the islanders ... In the Madang district of New Guinea, after some 40 years' experience of the missions, the natives went in a body one day with a petition demanding that the cargo secret should now be revealed to them, for they...
...inventor who took out more than 50 patents for electrical devices, owner of a real estate empire reputed to be worth $100 million, pamphleteer who promoted the single-tax ideas of Henry George and ran for U.S. Vice President in 1924 on the single-tax platform of the Commonwealth Land Party; in Scottsdale. Ariz...