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...affars, of which he is a member, has agreed to report another important measure in which he is a member, has agreed to report another important measure in which he is greatly interested. That is a plan drawn by the engineers of the metropolitan district commission for a traffic overpass and traffic circle underneath the overpass, at the Cambridge end of the Cottage Farm bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAN TRAFFIC CIRCLE AT ANDERSON BRIDGE | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

...barging at 40 m.p.h. down a hill on the main highway through Salem. Ill. when a front tire blew out. Swerving onto the soft shoulder, the bus careened with tremendous force into the abutment of an overpass. With a reverberation heard for a mile, the gas tanks exploded, spread flames which were soon shooting 40 ft. high. The wreckage rolled over, lay on its side across the road. The engine, torn completely off, fell 200 ft. away. The driver and another man shot through the windshield, badly hurt, clothes ablaze. Three others managed to crawl through the windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Midwestern Spectacle | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...alma mater in a campaign patterned after the Red Cross roll-call. Over the radio went the voices of longtime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, President Livingston Farrand and Myron Charles Taylor, Class of 1894, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee. Campaigners strove to overpass Yale's record for alumni subscribers (9,493) made in 1928. Cornell results: total subscribers for year ending June 30: 10,134. Total gifts for year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cornell's Record | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...portion of the improvements to be built in the next four years is estimated to be about $4,250,000. Of this sum Mrs. J. J. Storrow's gift will pay $1,000,000, the state highway fund $850,000., Boston $150,000., as its share of an overpass from Commonwealth Ave, at St. Paul St. to the Basin drive, and Cambridge $160,000 as, its share of the underpass for Memorial Drive at Massachusetts Ave. The balance of the cost, estimated at about $2,100,000, would be paid by the cities and towns of the Metropolitan Parks District...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killam Discusses Proposals to Alter Charles River and Basin | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

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