Word: river
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Building bridges is slow work. The Eliot Bridge,e which will span the Charles River between Soldiers Field Road and the traffic circle at the west end of Memorial Drive, will take a year to complete...
Munroe-Langstroth Contractors of North Attleboro started to dig into the Charles last Wednesday on a one-year, $732,000 contract with the Metropolitan District Commission. The whole project, including the access roads on both sides of the river and an extension of Mem Drive to Arsenal Street, Watertown, will cost another...
...want to interfere with the activities of Harvard crews. Both approaches will be continuous-flow rotaries; the MDC doesn't want another such two-headed bottle-neck as the Lars Anderson Bridge. The contract for the rotaries and for the new road on the north shore of the river will be let in July, and the work will be completed at the same time as the bridge, by the end of October 1950, according to the MDC's plans...
...base and filler for the south access rotary and part of the dredging for the south abutment of the bridge were completed during the last 15 months by the J. F. White Contracting Company of Cambridge (Joseph F. White '14). The land on both sides of the river and the river bottom itself are thick mud, absolutely useless as foundation for construction...
Devergie, a commuter and a member of the Orchestra, put the oboe in his car when he left his Beacon Street home. He stopped briefly at Dudley and then crossed the river to play in the Dudley Adams House football game...