Word: billboards
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...billboard lovely as a tree...
...Highway Beautification Act of 1965 was one of Lady Bird Johnson's pet projects. Inspired by visions of landscaped and uncluttered thoroughfares, she spearheaded the drive that resulted in a law banning billboards along major rural highways. Skimpy funding slowed down the billboard purge until 1971, but since then some 265,000 have been taken down and another half million slated for removal. Now Lady Bird's accomplishments may well be undermined by legislation expected to emerge from the House Public Works Committee sometime this week...
...Haven a hoarse voice intones, "All off for Hartford, Springfield, and points north." A billboard in the grim station urges its readers to buy TV Guide. Concrete storage vats rise from the roof of the Interstate Container Corporation. A woman dressed in black slacks and wearing a felt hat walks her dog on a residential street. She watches as a burly man in a light T-shirt walks slowly on the other side of the street and enters a liquor store. She shakes her head with contempt and pulls her dog by the leash. "Come now, Pearl, we must move...
...South Station, Boston, last stop, all off," the conductor shouts, and the train slows down as it passes under the State Street Bank. Downtown Boston is dark as the high-rising office buildings shut out the last rays of the sun. A billboard advertises Playboy Magazine...
...Green Line trolleys were quiet yesterday on their runs past Kenmore, and Jersey street did not echo the calls of the peanut sellers hawking their goobers. No one was sitting atop the Windsor Canadian billboard either--mother nature and not the Boston Police had seen to that...