Word: tracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the announcement yesterday of two contract awards the Business School inaugurated the preliminary work on the new tract across the Charles. Contracts were let to the firm of J. F. White and Company of Cambridge for the excavating and filling and to the New England Brick Company for face brick...
...tire concern of that name and intimate friend of Henry Ford. Firestone has viewed with alarm the British crude rubber monopoly, and has urged the acquisition by this country of its own sources of supply. It is considered that Air. Ford's previous purchase of a large tract of land in Florida is linked with this more recent purchase, and that both indicate his intention to cultivate rubber plantations there...
About five years ago, Samuel Untermyer, famed lawyer and capitalist, purchased a 32-acre tract at Palm Beach for $75,000. Critics at the time declared the price excessively high. Lawyer Untermyer held on till recently, when he vindicated his judgment by selling out his ocean-front property for $775,000-a profit of nearly...
...Kurdistan is a tract of territory lying partly within Turkish borders, partly within Persian. A large part of the territory was known before and during the War as Armenia. The Kurds are a fierce, lawless people or whom the late Sultan Abdul Hamid II placed much reliance for the internal peace of his shaking Empire. Now that there are an Armenians to kill (they have been driver from the country, exchanged and massacred) it was suggested that the Kurds have nov turned to killing the Turks...
...course is being promoted by several prominent business men of Boston. They have purchased a considerable tract of land, including Weld estate, on the line between Brookline and West Roxbury, on which an 18-hole course has been laid out. Approximately $350,000 have been invested. The stock holders plan to sell shares in the club which will carry with them the privileges of the course and thus avoid the exorbitant initiation fees and annual dues of the ordinary country club...