Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambitious proposals made by the commission were those intended to relieve traffic problems in the Yale area. As well as closure of several streets now running through the campus and construction of a student parking garage, the commission's report called for a $3 million vehicular tunnel passing under downtown New Haven. Such a tunnel might be financed jointly by the city and the university, the commission suggested...
...Truck Driver Jesse R. Perry, 24. Convinced of his case against all five, Gene Smith saw each arraigned on $50,000 bail, announced that a fourth dynamite attempt (against an office building occupied by the Prudential Insurance Co.) had fizzled when the dynamiters were scared away by heavy downtown traffic...
...from the shadows came half a dozen teen-age youngsters. "Where's Frenchy?" demanded one. Nobody knew, although some were aware that cocky Frenchy Cordero, from downtown, had recently been chased out of the neighborhood after he tried to sell marijuana to a Clinton woman. The intruders withdrew. Scared, the Clinton kids decided to hurry on home. But as they started to go, the invaders appeared again...
...general personnel manager and vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley, together with Grant (now 83 but still active as board chairman), have waged a major campaign to shift Grant out of drab downtown locations into suburban shopping centers. Result: Grant's sales in its 770 stores have jumped to $432 million. The company has never failed to show a profit, never skipped or reduced a dividend...
Most seriously affected were the 13 hospitals in the blacked-out zone. Orderlies from Metropolitan Hospital rushed portable incubators carrying four premature babies 70 blocks downtown to Bellevue Hospital, where they were safely plugged in. Two nurses in Mt. Sinai Hospital kept an iron-lung patient alive by operating the respirator manually...