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...charter of incorporation from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and thus became the administrative masters of 14-year-old Harvard's single wooden building, its 800 books, and the ?30 to ?40 worth of wampum collected each year from the tolls of the Boston-Charlestown ferry...
...addition, vandalism was also reported at Cambridge Field, where four trees were destroyed; at Abbey Street, where windows in the National Biscuit Company's plant were smashed; and in Charlestown, where a candy shop has been a constant target for the past week...
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...
...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...