Word: billboarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed, by a 63-to-14 vote in the Senate, a slightly watered down $320 million road beautification bill to provide for junkyard cleanups and billboard controls along federally financed highways. As originally reported out of the Senate Public Works Committee, the measure would have withdrawn all federal highway funds from any state that did not effectively curtail unsightly billboard advertising within 660 feet of federal-aid highways. The bill's punitive powers were cut by an amendment providing for withdrawal of only 10% of federal road money in such cases...
Lady Bird's Must. Outdoor advertising is an obvious target for beautifiers. To oppose the billboard bills that Lyndon Johnson says he "must have for Lady Bird" is like supporting crime in the streets. Yet the major offense to the eye is the neon jungie of on-premise signs of used-car lots, drive-in restaurants and souvenir stands on the out skirts of most U.S. towns. The new bills leave these untouched. Instead, they call for elimination of all billboards for 660 feet on either side of a federal highway or primary roadway outside commercial or industrial areas...
...emporium (reputed to be the city's most profitable), and the other floors are hidden behind a huge bill board, which reads "This Is Macy's -The World's Largest Store." Macy's leases it for one of the world's fanciest billboard prices...
...About to Throw Up." One hard day's night over the whole CBS network last week, the big-beat spectacular happened just the way Murray planned it. A breakneck succession of 23 Scopi-tone-like acts in 90 minutes. A bill reading like Billboard's "Hot 100" and sounding, to adults, like 76 air hammers. The Ronettes playing stickball on Manhattan's Mott Street. Little Anthony and the Imperials mock-"bopping" on the stage of the Brooklyn Fox. Gary Lewis and the Playboys blowing up a squall on the beach at California's Abalone Cove...
...President was deadly serious when it came to the beautification program, and to prove it he sent a message to Congress asking for four new laws to clean up roadsides. One would put controls on billboard advertising by making it impossible for states to receive federal highway grants after July 1, 1970, unless they removed signs erected within 1,000 ft. of the road. Despite arguments that roadside signs help keep motorists awake and despite the fact that many states put up their own billboards to advocate safe-driving practices. Johnson said, "It is neither in the interests...