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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board also noted that in the area between Mt. Auburn St. and Harvard Sq." the problem is quite difficult." It proposed shifting the line gradually from the MTA carbarn side of the street towards the easterly side, estimating that the buildings on that side are in "relatively poorer condition" and would therefore probably be replaced sooner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Studies Widening of Boylston St. | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Examiner, which have recently pushed brisk Sunday circulation sorties into a jealously guarded newspaper preserve. To the custodian of the preserve-which also includes five radio stations and a television station-such poaching is intolerable. Valley residents seem to feel about the same way. In the 18,000-sq.-mi. domain, one of every two doorsteps is daily crossed by a Bee; in Sacramento so many people take the paper that a new carrier boy is handed a route list, not of subscribers, but of those few nonconformists who do not subscribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Valley of the Bees | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...good, solid nuclear explosion separate imprisoned oil from the tight clutch of tar sand? If it can, the world's oil reserves may soon be doubled. The geological proving ground is the 30,000 sq. mi. of tar sands underlying northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in the vicinity of Lake Athabaska. The company that thinks it can turn the trick is California's Richfield Oil Corp., which last week formally asked permission of the Canadian government to set off a nuclear charge just under the Athabaska sands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: A-Bombing for Oil | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Magic Carpet. A new nonskid, weather-and mark-proof vinyl carpet will be put on sale by U.S. Rubber Co. Price: $5.95 per sq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Aluminum Shingles. "Lifetime" aluminum roof shingles in six baked-enamel colors embossed with wood grain were announced by Reynolds Metals Co. The shingles interlock to withstand high winds. Price: $40 per 100 sq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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