Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Getting a Facelift. Hotels, receiving reservation requests at a 10,000-a-week clip, were already nearly sold out for the three summer months. By last week advance sales of tickets had topped $700,000. In the shadow of Queen Anne Hill, on a 74-acre tract of land, fair buildings were rising dramatically. For Seattle, the experience was like that of the perennial wallflower who suddenly finds herself the belle of the ball. The town was mostly pleased, but partly dazed-and just a mite suspicious. There was dark talk about the girlie shows that are planned. Local businessmen...
...Manhattan, the International Business Machines Corp. disclosed plans for shifting its head office about 25 miles north to Armonk in Westchester County. There, on a 443-acre tract, IBM is building a sprawling headquarters that will house 1,000 employees...
...shelters in commercial or industrial buildings. Neither will it participate in any sort of shelter program for individual families.* A detailed handbook on shelters, titled "Fallout Protection," which was prepared by government civil defense experts and the editors of LIFE, has been jettisoned-to be replaced by a bland tract that will be distributed in January...
...typewriter-making Underwood Corp., and other European giants such as France's glassmaking Saint-Gobain and Germany's chemical-making Bayer have opened U.S. branches with U.S. partners. One British real estate syndicate-Boston British Properties, Inc.-even intends to rejuvenate downtown Boston, has bought a tract near the scene of the Boston Tea Party to put up the city's tallest building - a 30-story. $20-million affair...
...fluorouracil is by no means so simple as the theory. There are other body cells that multiply about as fast as cancer cells, and therefore need a lot of uracil, notably those in the bone marrow, which makes blood cells, and those in the lining of the digestive tract. Soon after 5-fluorouracil has attacked the cancer, it damages these vital, normal cells. Patients begin to suffer from vomiting. At the first sign of inflammation and ulceration in the mouth, doctors stop the drug. Usually they try to give heavy doses (injected into an arm vein) for three to five...