Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curley's campaign strategy has been to hold his vote in every ward, while the opponents have tended to concentrate on specific wards. McDonough, digging deep into traditional Curley territory, is working in the South Boston and Charlestown wards. Hynes is more interested in the wards from 10 to 22, Brighton, the Roxbuys, Roslindale and parts of Dorcester. The fact that McDonouglf is working against Curley may very well help Hynes. But, to balance that, whatever votes Oakes takes will come from Haynes and probably not from the other...
...subway train crossing the Charles St. bridge the next time you're going in town and you'll see, sticking up between the Bunker Hill monument and the Navy Yard cranes, the great red truss of Boston's first big bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over the East River. Carrying one-way traffic on each, the two decks...
...bridge is Boston's first step toward the solution of the city's two foremost civic problems--the unsnarling of traffic and the improvement of port facilities. The old artery from Charlestown to Chelsea had two drawbridges on route, one of which was opened 7000 times last year for an average of ten minutes each time. That drawbridge was in such poor condition that the War Department had come very near requesting the two cities involved to build a new one at their own expense. And even with such time hazards, 11 million vehicles passed over that road last year...
...piers on which the main truss rests go down some 83 feet below the water line--making these huge abutments the largest of their kind in the country. Dozens of homes were transported intact away from the 60 foot strip that the bridge's approaches carve through Chelsea and Charlestown. In many respects the engineering was equally as remarkable as in the construction of the John Hancock building. And for all the danger that operating at such heights meant, only one worker was killed during the entire...
...Limitations prevents prosecution for a crime six years after it is perpetrated, but the hitch is that the Statute doesn't "run" for time spent outside the state. His Majesty, now in retirement in British Columbia, might yet end his days sticking wads of Blackjack under a cot in Charlestown State Prison...