Word: planted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...worst conflagration which has occurred in Greater Boston for many years began yesterday morning about 11 o'clock at the westerly end of the city of Chelsea in a dump near the plant of the Boston Blacking Company on Summer street. Late last night the fire, fanned by the high northwest wind, had not only burned over an area of about half a mile wide and over two miles long in Chelsea, but had also spread rapidly in East Boston. One of the worst features of the fire was the explosion of the oil tanks of the Tidewater Oil Company...
Municipal ownership is not practical at present, said Mayor Hibbard, and it never will be until it can be entirely freed from politics. In Boston it has particularly been a failure because of its corruption. A good example is the Municipal Printing Plant of the city, which has been a sort of bank for politicians and their constituents during the last few years. This year, however, it has been placed on a firm basis, with a practical man at its head, and it will be given two years' fair trial to show whether or not municipal ownership is a success...
...welcome the improvements in Holyoke House that the University plans to make during the coming summer. As a convenient center the advantages of the building have never been fully realized; with an elevator and a steam heating plant the chief objections to it will have been removed...
...general investments, and distributing the sinking-fund payments over so large a number of years that, according to actual experience, they do not even keep pace with depreciation. In other words, the Corporation lends money to the Dining Association on a wasting or vanishing security. Moreover, with the plant in good condition, the income of the investment, to say nothing of the principal, is wholly dependent on the steady running of the Hall...
...corporation doing business as a cafe, but an association of students for the purpose of deriving the advantages of cooperation in obtaining board. It is not capitalized and does not own property. On the contrary, it is obliged to borrow money at interest to pay for its plant and the regular bills incurred. This money, instead of being borrowed from banks, is obtained from the Corporation of the University as a regular investment. The fallacy of the Illustrated Magazine's position appears when it calls the plant, bought with the borrowed money, a gift to the Corporation. Legally...