Word: river
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record year for construction in Cambridge, but there are a number of businessmen who would like to build here but can't for lack of space; Plan E's low tax rate has proved quite an attraction in this respect. Finally, Cambridge-unlike such one industry cities as Fall River, Lynn, and Gloucester-is somewhat depression-resistant in that it boasts diversification of trades. Candy, soap, chemicals, metals, and printing companies-as well as colleges-continue to flourish here...
...fine each. The eleventh got a $10,000 fine and three years in prison. Robert Thompson, New York state chairman of the party, had gotten a lighter sentence because of his war record: he won the Distinguished Service Cross in New Guinea for swimming a swollen river under fire and, with his platoon, wiping out two pillboxes. Comrade Thompson was not exactly grateful for the favor. "Judge Medina attempted with a last-minute two-bit maneuver to cloak his vicious class role with a whitewash of judicial fairness," Thompson complained later. "I take no pleasure that this Wall Street judicial...
...week, a group of less restrained celebrators commented at length, but scarcely said any more. Just four years after the signing of the San Francisco Charter, the U.N.'s General Assembly met in special open-air session at the site of the new U.N. building at the East River foot of Manhattan's 42nd Street, to watch the cornerstone laid for U.N.'s imposing new headquarters. As President Truman arrived at the 42nd Street site, the combined New York Police, Fire & Sanitation Department bands struck up The Sidewalks of New York, better known by its first line...
Sweeping six out of 12 races, the freshman sailors won the Freshman Dinghy Championship of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association on the Charles River yesterday afternoon...
...Crimson yachtsmen, paced by Skipper George Whitney, who won two races, sailed to a disputed victory over the Coast Guard Academy yesterday afternoon on the Thames River in New London. Coast Guard claims that Harvard can be not be credited with an official win because light rains and claims forced cancellation of two of the four scheduled races...