Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation favoring the Magazine Street rather than the Brookline Street site and agreeing with the favorable action of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs in voting to permit the Park Commissioner to take the first steps towards building the bridge at Magazine Street. Magazine Street is the continuation of Prospect Street, running from Contral Square, Cambridge, to Charlesbank. The proposed bridge will connect Magazine Street with St. Paul Street, on the Boston side of the Charles River, which runs into Brookline Village...
With regard to the proposition of introducing reindeer into Labrador as a commercial prospect, I consider that a careful study of past experience would convince any man that the proposition should without fail be a very remunerative one if the experiment is properly managed...
Somewhat of an innovation in the schedule of preliminary crew work was definitely decided on Saturday evening because of the exceptional length of time that the river is remaining ice-bound. With no immediate prospect of open water on the upper stretches of the Charles, it is planned to send the first two University eights to South Boston for the Daily work-outs, and the activities of Crews A and B will in all probability be carried out on the harbor until the ice around the University boat house breaks...
...advent of March 4 and the termination of Congress played its part in the more optimistic view taken of the railroad industry; not until December next can the legislative threats of the Brookharts and Cappers be heard in official session. But apart from this, traffic continues heavy, with apparent prospect of substantial earnings during coming months. The old topic of merging the roads into a few systems has begun again, but until certain Eastern roads can be viewed as assets rather than liabilities, few significant steps toward its realization are likely. In general, prices of railroad and industrial stocks have...
...alone Wall Street, but the entire country is now engaged in conjecture as to the exact interpretation to be placed upon this pronounced advance in commodity prices. While Mr. Babbitt is immensely cheered at the immediate business prospect in 1923, yet the disastrous memories of 1920 and 1921 are still fresh in his mind; he is wondering whether business is entering into such another swift and unhealthy " boom" as he experienced in 1919 and 1920. For the most part, anxiety on this score seems groundless. The 1919 boom arose from the world shortage of goods after...