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...that cities will die and grass grow in the streets are worried about the new office buildings choking the midtown area. Grass may never grow on the streets, but it may some day grow on the roofs of the cars caught in the daily 5 o'clock traffic jam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWS IN PICTURES;: THE GREAT MANHATTAN BOOM | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

Over Telegraph Hill, in downtown San Francisco, Christmas shoppers and homing office workers honked angrily in the season's worst jam. They cursed Mike Gaffey and they cursed his men-for not keeping the traffic moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Big Mike & the Mobs | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Getchell has yet to complete the figures for the Crimson's two away games, played against Columbia in New York City, and Yale in New Haven. Close to 65,000--the largest crowd to jam the Bowl in years, watched the final game. The H.A.A. gets a percentage of the final profits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Ticket Sales Probably Will Not Increase for '53, '54 Seasons | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

...only effective way of foiling the meters is by installing a transmitter in the automobile to jam the radar. But transmitters cost as much as $3,500 and require special FCC operating permits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAFFIC: Big Brother Is Driving | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...beaten Yale in the Bowl since 1941; the oddsmakers give seven points that the Elis will win today; certain doubts surround the right arm of Captain Dick Clasby. But this is the seventieth anniversary of a rivalry which has no real favorites, and over 60,000 people should jam the Bowl at 1:30 p.m., many of them hoping to see the strongest Harvard team in six years display the sustained scoring power which it has flashed only occasionally this year...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Strong Harvard Eleven Meets Favored Yale In Seventieth Anniversary of Series Today | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

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