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Sverdrup & Parcel, consulting engineers for the MBTA, are conducting a thirty-eight week study to determine the final route...
...then, of course, there was Halloween. After I dumped the candy corn and apples, I'd have all those neatly packaged morsels to parcel out, day by day, bite by bite. Sometimes three or four a day, even. I had very little willpower. Besides, Mother always knew how many I had had; I'd have chocolate breath. Also, that was before anyone had to worry about what the neighbors might have injected into the bar. The special neighbors always saved a big candy bar for their good little friends. That certainly solidified their neighborhood reputation...
...business he is in." Wilson argued that Field had worked hard to improve the property. He had cleared it of slag heaps (which Britons have dubbed "the Wigan Alps") and had therefore more than earned what Field says was an estimated $240,000 profit on the sale of the parcel. The Daily Mail had claimed that he made $1,860,000 on the complicated deal. As for Marcia Williams, 41, the Prime Minister insisted that she had played no part in running her brother's land company and "there is no reason why any member of my staff should...
...Wilson's libel suits against the newspapers will keep the matter before the public for some time. Then there is a Scotland Yard investigation of an increasingly murky subplot involving Land Developer Ronald Milhench, 32. He has claimed that he received a letter discussing terms for the parcel that Field was trying to sell; at the bottom, Harold Wilson's signature was reportedly forged...
...speculation in areas of intense commercial development is yielding some of the largest inflation fortunes. Prime examples: land located along the proposed route of Atlanta's rapid transit system and near the mammoth Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. A Dallas real estate group recently sold for $45,000 a parcel of virgin land that it had bought only two months earlier for a mere $6,000. To a lesser extent, inflation also benefits the typical owner of a mortgaged home. Since the value of the dollars used to repay the debt is lessening, the mortgage is, in effect, becoming cheaper...