Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the road to the Jordan Valley in tanks, armored cars and trucks, slapping at mosquitoes in the heat. They crossed the river by Allenby Bridge, moved toward Jericho. Some Legionnaires were in Palestine already. Their first operations, confined to the Arab allotment in Palestine under the U.N. partition plan, were to occupy villages north and south of Jerusalem...
...British hopes for the Middle East: they need a secure corridor from the Mediterranean (probable outlet: Gaza) through friendly Hashimite kingdoms to the oil and bases of Iraq. As long as they hold Abdullah's purse strings, they will try to hold Abdullah to this more modest plan. Said a British official in Amman last week: "The Legion will be very prudent. We want no wild adventures." Britain's subsidy of $8,000,000 a year still continues, and the Legion's British commander, Major General John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), was still in Amman last week...
...scolded, but still the windows got broken. In one year (1946), Chicago's school board paid out $271,897 just to mend windows that the schoolkids smashed. Finally, the exasperated board promised to give $22,000 worth of books to the schools with the fewest broken panes. The plan worked: last year, Chicago's broken schoolhouse panes dropped from...
...spending $20,000,000 to turn the trick. At the head of Butte's "Dublin Gulch," workers hoisted a sign that read "Kelley's Shaft." They started to sink a rectangular shaft big enough (38 ft. by 9 ft.) to accommodate the machinery needed for the Kelley plan. It will be driven down to 3,400 ft., cutting straight through the old galleries where the best of the rich ore has been mined. To get out the low-grade ore, miners will work out from Kelley's shaft into abandoned levels, blast off huge blocks...
Five hundred eleven Harvard undergraduates, of whom 384 are currently House residents, filed applications at the recent registration, which Provost Buck and Vice-President Reynolds felt were enough to make House residence feasible. Details of the plan are under consideration at present by Associate Dean Watson and the seven House masters...