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Word: boulevard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop and Leverett Houses will have a private boulevard at their front doors when the city of Cambridge finishes paving Riverview Avenue. City officials expect that the work will be completed by November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paving Job | 11/15/1934 | See Source »

...Bonus resolution. Meantime, their fellow-members, on record as resenting the President's remark that they were better off than "the average of any other great group of our citizens," held lavish carnival, with elaborate floats and trick uniforms of every hue, from noon until night along Biscayne Boulevard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Miami Meet | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

Report to Secretary Ickes from the $4,400,000 Boulevard Gardens job last week was enough to turn what is left of his hair snowy white. No work had been done for two months, cost of the building was mounting daily, idle workers were swelling relief rolls. Reason: carpenters and steam-fitters cannot agree who will cut recesses in the floors to lay steam pipes in the ten six-story buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Whole Hog | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Administration's housing programs was the set-up whereby PWA would advance money to private limited dividend corporations to erect model housing communities. Results have been almost grotesque. Two projects are under way in New York City, one in The Bronx called Hillside, one in Queens called Boulevard Gardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Whole Hog | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

Last month Chicago's swank Union League Club papered a private dining room with nearly 2,000 worthless bonds and stock certificates, called it the Million-dollar Room. Last week in Chicago a noisy rabble of 10,000 bondholders from 22 states marched down Michigan Boulevard tossing equally worthless bonds on the street, trampling them with vicious whoops. Led by Governor William Langer of North Dakota, they shouted, "We've been robbed." displayed banners reading: "WE HAVE BONDS, BUT NO BREAD." "DILLINGER AND CAPONE ARE AMATEURS." Thousands of spectators jampacked the sidewalks as the three-mile procession rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bond March | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

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