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...proposal by Sen. Francis X. McCann of Cambridge calls for the construction of similar overpasses at River Ave, and Western Ave, in order to avoid the "grinding halts" that pile up traffic on Memorial Drive during the rush hours...
...McCann's bill is passed by the Senate and approved by the Metropolitan District Commission, it would turn Mem Drive into a high-speed route to Boston similar to Storrow Drive across the Charles River. The bill also calls for an extension of Memorial Drive behind the Mt. Auburn Hospital and as far as the Watertown line...
...Boylston St., McCann proposes to depress Mem Drive and construct an overpass at about the same height as the Lars Anderson Bridge which crosses the Charles from Soldiers Field. Although the overpass may "knock out a few trees along the River," McCann maintains that it "will not disrupt the landscaping or be high enough to block out light from Eliot House...
...small tract of land in front of Eliot House's "flat front" would be used to construct a direct exit from Memorial Drive to Boylston St. McCann noted that when Eliot was built 20 years ago, a corner of empty land was left because the City anticipated the need for a traffic circle there...
...Swedish engineer, was a kindly, rotund gentleman whose affable manner concealed one of the shrewdest business minds of his day and the same kind of boundless energy that was the hallmark of his friend Teddy Roosevelt. Long before he merged his prospering advertising agency with another to make McCann-Erickson, he had piled up a fortune by investing in products for which few others saw any future. Once, for example, he heard about an unsuccessful roofing material called Congo. He bought the company, painted the material a different color, turned it into a profitable floor covering (Congoleum). In his lifetime...