Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, yesterday opposed "selling any land whatsoever to Harvard" or to any other untaxable private interest." Toomey declared that he would support any legislative measure forcing the MTA to sell its property by competitive bidding after notifying officials of the town involved...
Toomey's remarks were prompted by the MTA's privately negotiated sale of five acres of valuable land in Medford last week. The sale precipitated a sharp controversy between legislative members and the trustees of the MTA about the way in which all surplus MTA land should be sold...
Toomey and Ward have each opposed private sales, asking that the MTA publish a list of all its salable land. Ward supported the Medford transaction, however, and said yesterday that any MTA land sale is "fair game" and can be conducted as the trustees decide...
...received $200,000 for the Medford sale which prompted the controversy. Although an MTA appraiser valued the land at $150,000, Medford appraisers declared after the sale was announced that the land was worth at least...
Near Thule, Greenland, and Clear, Alaska, the U.S. Air Force is quietly building two huge long-range radar stations designed to cover the Communist land mass from the Pacific to Poland and give early warning of Communist missile strikes at a range of 3,000 miles. Name of project: Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS (pronounced be-muse). Cost: $1 billion. The Air Force hopes to complete the Thule station this year, the Clear station in 1960, hopes to get BMEWS operational by the time the Communists are expected to begin deploying sizable intercontinental missile forces...