Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jaakko Mikkola's defeat - hardened cross-country squad opens the 1949 season against Tufts this afternoon at Franklin Park in Boston. The freshmen, meanwhile, will take on the 1953 Tufts squad is what will be for most of the Crimson runners their first race...
Captained by Jee Leeming, the 12-man varsity leaves for Franklin Park early this afternoon. The team will run a 4-, mile-plus course, while the freshmen tackle and slightly shorter. This may well prove a blessing for the '53 team. Mikkola reports that only three of four of the 20 freshmen now working out have ever run in cross-country competition before...
...Steel building, a $28 million token of faith in Pittsburgh's future. In R. K. Mellon's mind's eye was the vision of a whole new city-a second skyscraper, the $10 million, 30-story Alcoa building rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision of a city cleared of drab relics of half a century, cured of its traffic congestions, freed of the pollution of its rivers and the poison of its soot-heavy air, a city better housed...
Last week officials triumphantly announced that the Equitable Life Assurance Society had agreed to take on the financing of a spectacular $50 million project to clear 23 acres of the Triangle's point, convert it into a park and construct three modern office buildings...
Last week, at 70, Juan March (rhymes with park) staged one of the most audacious strokes of his audacious career. He snatched Spain's biggest public utility, the $250 million Ebro Irrigation & Power Co., Ltd., away from an international electrical combine run by a U.S. businessman and partly financed by U.S. and British investors...