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...what modifications should be made? He will consider the traffic services of parkways and their contribution to public recreation. Do they have an injurious effect upon residential property as they become devoted to highly congested traffic and inter-regional communication or does the provision of a park area between the thoroughfare and the occupied land preserve residential values? Of what service are they in the resuscitation of a blighted district...
...acquisition of the land at 15 Holyoke Street, lying between the Big Tree swimming pool and the vacant lot on the northwest corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, consolidates the University's holdings in that area. It is understood that an anonymous alumnus has offered to finance a new building, to serve as offices for the H. A. A. and as a medical center. Plans for a small structure were drawn up some time ago, but carrying out of the proposition was postponed when the advisability of constructing a larger unit resembling the new Yale Medical Center came under...
...important ice-cream distributor in the New Jersey-New York-Connecticut area is Consolidated Dairy Products Corp., which also sells dairy products, soda fountains. Mr. McInnerney knew last week that Beatrice Creamery Co., third largest U. S. dairy company (1930 sales: $82,000,000) and an ice-cream specialist, was after Consolidated. But he also knew that Consolidated's shareholders had adjourned their meeting because National also had bid for Consolidated. The Beatrice bid approximated $8.45 a share for Consolidated stock which sold as low as $3¼ this year. The National bid approximated $9.93. Through Kraft-Phenix Cheese...
...Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, abuilding these many years on Mt. St. Alban, 400 ft. above the city of Washington. Less pretentious and less costly than Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it will nevertheless with 71,000 square feet of floor space exceed in area the famed cathedrals of Notre-Dame de Paris, Rheims, Cologne, Canterbury and Westminster Abbey. Units of its Gothic, cruciform plan already completed are the apse and choir (top of the cross), the entire foundations, the crypt of the nave, three crypt chapels, a Children's Chapel. Now being constructed...
...dark and bloody ground of Kentucky grew darker and bloodier last week. Union warfare erupted in the Big Black Mountain coal mining district. Months of depression had seeded the rocky ridges of Harlan County for industrial trouble. With more than half the mines in the area closed down, organizers of the United Mine Workers of America circulated persistently among the jobless miners, exhorted them to unionize. Strikes followed. As bitterly opposed as ever to unionization were the politically powerful mine operators who hired small armies of deputy sheriffs to protect their property. Friction between miners, idle and sullen, and guards...