Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cost of the portion of the improvements to be built in the next four years is estimated to be about $4,250,000. Of this sum Mrs. J. J. Storrow's gift will pay $1,000,000, the state highway fund $850,000., Boston $150,000., as its share of an overpass from Commonwealth Ave, at St. Paul St. to the Basin drive, and Cambridge $160,000 as, its share of the underpass for Memorial Drive at Massachusetts Ave. The balance of the cost, estimated at about $2,100,000, would be paid by the cities and towns...
According to the will of Colonel P. M. Lydig '89, who died at Nice, France, on February 16, Harvard University will receive the major portion of his large estate, upon the death of a friend, Mille. Reuee Chauchet, who is to enjoy the income from it during her lifetime...
President Lowell's recommendation, as seen in the extracts above, included the closing of a portion of South Street, which now runs between the Freshman Gymnasium and the new athletic plant. It is possible that if this thoroughfare can be eliminated the two buildings will be connected to allow safe passage from one to the other in all weather...
...terms of cups consumed. To the cocoa trader, however, drinking-cocoa (which he calls cocoa powder) is only a fraction of the industry's products. To him cocoa and chocolate are identical, both proceeding from the same cocoa bean; the entire chocolate-bar business is also a portion of the cocoa industry. The value of the cakes of chocolate made in a year is about three times the value of the cups of cocoa. The bean was originally grown in South America, was transplanted to Africa some 35 years ago. Now the African Gold Coast produces more than half...
...Ford of England was to hold 60% of the stocks of European Ford companies; the other 40% was to be sold to citizens of the countries concerned. It is said, however, that Mr. Ford was shocked and grieved to find that U. S. brokers had gobbled up a large portion of his Ford of England stock. He may perhaps wish his other European Fords to be independent of Ford of England, to be free from the touch of Wall Street...