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Inasmuch as Boston has an enormous greater metropolitan population, the city's tax rate reflects the cost of services for all the daily commuters. In Massachusetts, the low State revenue contributes only a taken share to the city of Boston's coffer. Thus many of the low tax rates in the surrounding towns and cities are the result of Boston's taking care of the big population most...
...years when the Davis Cup is held by the U. S., the coffers of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association swell some $50,000 from gate receipts of the Interzone Final and Challenge Round, always played in the country defending the Cup. This year the tennis association got out an extra coffer when Helen Wills Moody decided to try for a comeback in international tennis. A meeting between Helen Moody and Helen Jacobs in the U. S. championship would add at least $25,000 to the till. Thus the U. S. L. T. A. was very glad...
...construction of the new Anderson Bridge over the Charles River at Boylston Street is progressing steadily. The contractors have erected coffer dams, and are now at work on the piers which will carry the new edifice. The foundations will be completed soon, and the construction will then move rapidly...
Last week came news of another novel counterattack to an onslaught of Nature. Long ago the idea of diverting the river through tunnels was discarded as too expensive and too risky, and cellular coffer dams of sheet steel were built to keep the river out of the excavation area. Three weeks ago one of these crumpled and water poured through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons...
...most spectacular part of this extensive project is the work on the rive. This has caused the presence of the diver, the spectators, and half of the men, with their paraphernalia. For they are busy building a coffer dam out in the river, which is hold the water off men working on the shore...