Word: overpasses
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...bill to depress Memorial Drive several feet and build an overpass above the road at Boylston St. will be reported favorably by the Massachusetts Senate's Metropolitan Affairs Committee today...
...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...
...automobile and its rail-less track became an autocrat and a sacred cow; no one dared stand in its way. Family homesteads, a town's ancient elms, historic monuments were sacrificed to spare the passing motorist a few minutes' delay. Bypasses and underpasses and overpasses snaked through and around the cities. Some of the results were beautiful as well as functional; some were just functional. In Trinidad. Colo., for example, through travelers on U.S. Highway 85 used to drive down curving Commercial Street, make a right-angle turn at Main Street, then inch their way out of town...
Castro has fled to the Dominican Republic to plot Scott's overthrow with Batista. "Overthrow, overpass--I'll give 'em free transportation to my island paradise if they feel they got the divisions. Man, I don't want this damn place, I just want to beautify it. I feel that this is the Canadian's burden," he observed...
...whether, as a result of these harsh moves, the unrest would spread. But the workers were unorganized and without strike funds. On the fourth day the shipyard posted a notice: "As of today, job applications will be considered." Berets in hand, the Basques meekly filed over the long concrete overpass that carried them from their grimy slum homes across the railroad tracks and into the shipyard again. Without yielding an inch, Franco had won, at least for now-even though the inflation, the poverty and the discontent were still there...