Word: underpass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cars, one inbound from Arlington Heights and the other bound for Watertown, hit as they entered the Littauer underpass and shook up their capacity loads. Injuries included a wrenched back and minor cuts and bruises...
McShain now has $100 million worth of buildings under contract, including Washington's $21.6 million General Accounting Office and the $16.8 million Clinical Health Center. He has just completed the $3.8 million Du Pont Circle underpass. On the White House job, he has to contract to complete it in 660 calendar days. He feels sure he can do it, though he won't have room to use more than 300 workers at a time. His big worry: dodging the souvenir hunters...
...time to turn to these more dangerous areas. A graceful brick overpass in each trouble spot which not pedestrian would use, or a more expensive underpass which would be no more popular, are two possible solutions. Short of portly policemen behind loudspeakers, the most sensible way to reduce the perils seems to be the installation of two sets of traffic lights or officers, one at the junction of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets and another at the corner in front of Lehman Hall. A shift in location of the Lehman Hall taxi stand, or at least a decrease in its size...
Remedial action lies in the power of either the city, the University, or both. If it is impractical to install traffic lights on Massachusetts Avenue in the vicinity of Widener, an underpass should be constructed somewhere between Plympton and Holyoke Streets. This move, plus a stricter enforcement of traffic regulations by the ubiquitous blue-coats are years overdue. Further delay would show gross ingratitude to the goddess of fortune for her past favors...
When hulking Richard Truman Frankensteen was nominated for mayor of Detroit, many a U.S. left-winger got excited. Frankensteen was a founder and vice president of the vast United Automobile Workers, C.I.O. He had bled at the hands of Ford "service men" at the famed Battle of the Underpass in 1937. He also seemed to have some political sex appeal: he was a college man (University of Dayton '32), a ready speaker, young (38) and did not mind admitting that he wrote operettas, collected dolls as a hobby. If U.S. labor was to produce, not merely influence poli. ticians...