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...Yankee mill owners donated an acre of land southwest of the city's center. The neighborhood became a gateway for generations of immigrants who went to Lowell in search of work and a better life. On wages of 75 cents a day, the early laborers crowded into a shantytown of mud huts and shacks. "I learned to speak French just hanging out on my street," says Nicholas Georgoulis, 76, who grew up in the Acre with Greek Orthodox parents and French-Canadian neighbors. The Irish were followed by Greeks, Poles, Scots, Portuguese, French Canadians and Italians, all escaping economic...
...HRAAA mission was not unprecedented.Student activists had for years battled withHarvard administrators over the social and moralimplications of the University's investments. Atone point, in 1986, their protest included theconstruction of a shantytown that filled HarvardYard for several months...
April 1986 More than 200 divestment activists erect a shantytown and a symbolic 16-foot ivory tower in the Yard to protest Harvard's investment in companies related to South Africa...
...snatchers such as Palamarchuk claim that the center of Philadelphia's black market is Passyunk Avenue, in the southwestern part of the city. Here lies a sprawling shantytown of 70 salvage yards, and journalists are about as welcome as the rusty mud after a heavy rain. "Is that your car?" barks the manager of one junkyard. "Leave it there a couple of hours, and see what ! happens to it." His sidekick, an unfriendly German shepherd, growls in agreement...
...Lodge is a nontoxic Rocky Mountain high -- restful, woodsy, organic. Predock's Hotel Santa Fe, once you get past its drive-in-theater billboard of Clint Eastwood, looks as bleak as a Southwestern insane asylum. For anyone who wants to get suicidally depressed at Euro Disney, this cinder-block shantytown is the place to bunk...