Word: belt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...general character of the present midtown and downtown business sections, the theater district, Central Park, and Broadway would be undisturbed. But the rest of Manhattan, now "all mixed up," would be reshuffled in a more orderly scheme: placing industry along the belt highway, housing in separate areas and parks around the riverfront fringes. In the now-blighted downtown area between Canal Street and Washington Square, Herrey's plan proposes a great, permanent Fair, which might include a proposed fashion center...
...city. Their studies convinced them that Manhattan's basic trouble is hardening of the arteries-a creeping paralysis of transportation. Kerrey's plan begins, therefore, with reorganization of Manhattan's streets to restore circulation. Around the central part of the island would run a belt highway. It would carry all through north-&-south traffic, would be fed by widely spaced cross streets at about 15-block intervals. About 90% of the present crosstown streets, and Madison and Lexington Avenues, might be eliminated; all remaining streets and avenues would be one-way. North-&-south avenues (except Broadway) would...
Great Hopes. Planner Herrey's belt highway, some 80 ft. high, would have six separate levels-for truck, bus, passenger and express traffic, two levels for parking. It would run between 9th and 10th Avenues and between 2nd and 3rd. Crosstown streets, much wider than present ones, would be laid out in pairs (e.g., an eastbound highway on the site of 40th Street, westbound on 42nd Street...
...Vatutin's Big Push was showing signs of exhaustion. His men were tired, his supply routes long. By & large, he had traversed the belt of German flight; now he was coming up against defenses his canny opponent, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, had had ample time to build...
...grew and spread, and with each hour became more dangerous. Not even Manstein, with all his genius for war, knew how to end the infection. All he could do now was to retreat with all speed, and hope that the pursuer would wear himself out in the steadily widening belt of devastated land...