Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City won another battle in its never-ending war against the Inner Belt expressway yesterday...
There are no hotels and few places to eat in the area, and delegates will have to commute from the Loop via a single expressway or the back streets of the ghetto. The city's mammoth lakefront exhibition hall--closer to downtown, isolated from residential ears, and far easier to defend--was gutted by fire a year ago, but Daley's clout and assurance of peace brought the party to Chicago anyway...
...crisis-and brokers' calls for relief-peaked two weeks ago, when the Big Board shuddered to two 13 millionplus share days in a single exhausting week (TIME, Aug. 11). As an unwanted result, said one Manhattan broker, paperwork in brokerage firms was backed up "like the Long Island Expressway in rush hour...
...area given over to freeways, garages and parking lots-but Atlanta is in nearly as clogged a condition (50% of downtown), while Boston (40%) and Denver (30%) are not too far behind. According to one estimate, if New York were to double the capacity of every bridge, tunnel and expressway leading to the city, only 22% of all commuters could drive to work. For those who live within the city, driving is generally out of the question. They take a taxi if they can afford and find one (increasingly difficult), or the subway-which, according to the city...
...Willie Mays) to bounce a ball off the beer sign in left centerfield, 440 ft. from home plate. In Cincinnati, he hit two home runs over Crosley Field's 45-ft.-high Scoreboard - one of which carried all the way onto an exit ramp of the Mill Creek Expressway...