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Word: junkyards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Blake, author of the controversial bestseller God's Own Junkyard, called for a moratorium yesterday on all superhighway construction in the Boston metropolitan area until a long range masterplan has been developed for the city and its suburbs...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Blake Calls for Highway Moratorium | 3/23/1964 | See Source »

...other recent Memorial Drive developments: Peter Blake, author of the controversial bestseller "God's Own Junkyard," will discuss the Memorial Drive controversy in a press conference in Cambridge Sunday. Blake's book is a scathing indictment of "the planned deterioration of America's landscape...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Udall Won't Block MDC Underpasses | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...raise stock-margin requirements from 50% to 70% last November (he wanted a 10% boost), and was the only member to vote against last July's discount rate hike from 3% to 3.5%. A lawyer of direct style and breezy off-hours informality, he was in a Washington junkyard looking for an iron fence for his home when his reappointment was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalities: Mar. 20, 1964 | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...wide ravine runs 150 ft. deep and a mile long, an ugly supergully slashing between the green campuses of Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad rumbles along its bottom, flanked by a few slum houses, construction storage yards, truck depots and a junkyard. Most cities would give it up as a desolate though semiserviceable eyesore. Not Pittsburgh, which has announced plans to convert the 75-acre Panther Hollow wasteland into a $250 million research center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Renaissance, Phase 2 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...room and board. The remainder is divided up between the prisoner's family and a trust fund that he receives on completing his sentence. Some of North Caro lina's working prisoners: Harry Rivenbark, 57, a forger, tears down automobiles in a Raleigh junkyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: Outside on the Job | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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