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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mammoth elevated highways, which will alleviate traffic problems in cities, were visualized yesterday in a speech by Hawley S. Simpson, of New York, noted traffic research engineer, at the Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research. High cost would prevent them from becoming immediately practical, he said...
While Hawley spoke of "the beginning of some elevated highway construction in cities before long," and mentioned the fact that it has been tried in small cities, he doubted if they could be economically justified. "Their cost will be in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 a mile in our larger cities, considering both construction costs and damages to abbutors, and then will be useful only to those having long distances to travel...
...England and France. In 1916, the last time so many-nations were at war, Thomas Woodrow Wilson began with a policy of Peace and Preparedness, then took to playing ball with the British and ended up by saving the world for Democracy at a total cost to the U. S. of 126,000 lives and $40,000,000,000. If that was the tragic gamut Mr. Roosevelt was about to embark on, last week the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives wanted to know about it. In the Senate the President's mouthpiece answered categorically NO! Before...
...constructed in the U. S. But that was no housing boom and Franklin Roosevelt wants one to help get him out of his Recession. Avowed friend of Labor though he is, he was bound to admit that one factor in deterring home building is the high labor cost, and if the laborer would take a lower daily wage he would get a higher annual wage...
Thoroughly discredited is the oldtime notion that fine works of art are the rightful property of an elite. But in the U. S. a good contemporary painting would still cost the average citizen half a year's income. A good painting by any one of the famous dead is as far out of his reach as the planet Jupiter. Museums own these things, and most museums try to attract people in to see them. Nothing, however, beats a museum for making the average man uncomfortable on Sunday afternoon...