Word: mta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physical commitment of the College to an expansion policy has not been reflected in adequate planning for the future. There is no visible policy of open-market purchase for all free land (one of the reasons for the incredibly expensive venture into acquiring the MTA yards), there has been little recognition until the last few years that "good-will" gestures to the rest of the Cambridge community might be as important to the College as any physical bargaining. Few but the professional planners have recognized the implications of the College's existence in a metropolitan community...
...City Council yesterday put off a scheduled conference on the reported plan to put a $50 million apartment house development on the MTA yards, because the plan's local proponent is touring the St. Lawrence Seaway...
Commenting on the phrase, "commuter espirit de corps," students ranged from humor to bitterness. "Will be formed when Napoleon is appointed Master," wrote one wag. "You meet happy people on the MTA," another improvised. "Ridiculous and hollow," "frightening artificiality," and "a rationalization for dissatisfied commuters"--these were other reactions, together with "Pleasant in many ways, but causes a provincial, cliquish atmosphere," and "Definitely true--too much, perhaps makes us clannish." This sentiment was echoed in other parts of the poll...
...group of Philadelphia insurance companies is interested in putting up a $50 million apartment house development on the MTA carbarn property, City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci said yesterday...
...addition, Sullivan remarked that the two buildings offered by Cambridge--the Wellington and Kelley schools--are both within five minutes' walk from the nearest MTA station. Since most of the students at the junior college will come from "economically underprivileged groups," he explained, availability of public transportation will be an important factor in choosing a site...