Word: canavan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canavan suggests a flat rate of $28.75, $12.55 less than the present Cambridge rate of $41.80. Other Massachusetts rates range from a high of $56.30 in Revere to a low of $16.20 in other communities...
Harold W. Canavan, a Revere representative in the state legislature, is circulating an initiative petition to repeal the present zone system of auto insurance rates and substitute a flat rate for the whole of Massachusetts...
...Canavan labelled the present system, with rates varying in different localities, "unfair." He said that motorists in Boston and other large cities travel on congested roads and therefore have more accidents. He also believes that many of the accidents in a particular community are often caused by transients rather than residents...
...little old lady sitting daily on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street is collecting signatures for Canavan's petition, which already has 13,000 of the 20,000 signatures needed by the December deadline to be put before the state legislature...
...owner of the punctured skull, one Phineas P. Gage, according to Myrtelle May Canavan, Curator of the Museum, led a most extraordinary and amazing existence. While tapping some explosives into a crevice back in 1818, Phineas accidently set the dynamite off and a 13 pound crowbar was driven clean through his skull from jaw bone to the back of his head...