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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left hand side of the subway train crossing the Charles St. bridge the next time you're going in town and you'll see, sticking up between the Bunker Hill monument and the Navy Yard cranes, the great red truss of Boston's first big bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over the East River. Carrying one-way traffic...
...bridge is Boston's first step toward the solution of the city's two foremost civic problems--the unsnarling of traffic and the improvement of port facilities. The old artery from Charlestown to Chelsea had two drawbridges on route, one of which was opened 7000 times last year for an average of ten minutes each time. That drawbridge was in such poor condition that the War Department had come very near requesting the two cities involved to build a new one at their own expense. And even with such time hazards, 11 million vehicles passed over that road last year...
With such speedy access to the city as the new span provides, the engineers estimate that nearly two million more vehicles will come into the city in 1950 and that, within 25 years, the figure will go over the 18 million mark. When the old drawbridge is torn out, the Mystic River channel can be widened and any seagoing vessel whose superstructure doesn't stand over 135 feet can go up the river to Everett and Chelsea...
Unless Harvard and Columbia play to a tie at Baker Field today, one of two jinxes which will ride into the game must go out the window. The Crimson hasn't won a football game away from Cambridge in three years; on the other hand, in their seven meetings with Harvard, the Lions have never triumphed...
Yale University, starting yesterday to wait out its ten-day polio incubation period, made plans to reschedule tomorrow's postponed Fordham football game for the Saturday two weeks after the Harvard-Yale game...