Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter to DeGuglielmo, the chairman of the CAC, George A. McLaughlin said that the prospect of the library had inflated real estate prices in the Square. "There are economic forces at work in the Harvard Square area," the letter said, "which left to their won devices could have extreme adverse effects on Cambridge generations yet to come...
Harvard faces the prospect of a strike within the next two weeks from the 265 members of the Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association. It is a strike that could shut down the entire University, and it's strike that the University could prevent...
...wanted the comfortably prosperous (1966 sales: $352 million) food, chemical and paint company. But Glidden President William G. Phillips was quick to warn stockholders that "Greatamerica knows that Glidden stock is worth substantially more" than $30. And at week's end, he was huddling with a friendly merger prospect, General Aniline & Film Co., to prove...
...does not enjoy the prospect. "I abhor giving speeches, I detest shaking hands, I detest in the most abominable manner signing autographs." And those babies, those terrible, drooling babies. But Vaughn wants to help, and he knows that his face and name may lend respectability to an anti-war movement which needs it. The effectiveness of the April 12 March in New York, in Vaughn's view, was riddled by tactical errors--a slate of controversial speakers, the wild forays of urban guerrillas and a contingent of exhibitionist hippies Being...
...real situation is far more complex, and the DPW's choice has more significance than the numbers suggest. The eastern end of Cambridge faces the prospect of long term industrial expansion. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is building a $60 million research laboratory next to M.I.T. The presence of the NASA complex will add to Cambridge's attractiveness as a home for electronics, engineering, and research-oriented companies. The possible influx of such firms is not an unpleasant prospect; it will mean new jobs for Cambridge and provide permanent stability for the City's tax base. But the influence...