Word: wacker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Police clubs clunked on the heads of Newspaper Guildsmen and blood was spilled in the shadow of Chicago's Civic Opera Building on Wacker Drive last week as the Guild staged its biggest strike. Out of the Hearst-owned Herald & Examiner and evening American had walked 600 editorial, business and circulation workers on the grounds that their contracts with the papers had been systematically violated...
...proof of impotence is that almost every step the metropolis has taken to deal with congestion has actually increased it. Subways route millions of people a day to the city's centre, in New York cost the city 3? over every 5? fare. Such transportation improvements as Wacker Drive in Chicago, which cost $22,000,000 a mile, tax the properties benefited and automatically produce a rise in rents, which becomes capitalized in the form of higher land values. End result: more intensive use, further traffic congestion...
Twenty-eight years ago a group of Chicago's civic minded citizens, headed by the late Charles Henry Wacker, envisioned a great outer drive system which would relieve this downtown snarl by skirting Michigan Avenue, route the main flow swiftly north & south along the very edge of the Lake away from the city's downtown streets. Land was bought, drained, beautified. Sixteen hundred acres of lake shore: were filled in. To the north, Michigan Boulevard was widened into a four-lane local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth...
...WACKER Toledo, Ohio...
...Chicago the battle of the mannequins was waged most politely. Professional models, from their headquarters on East Wacker Drive, sent an appeal to the Gold Coast to refrain from this ruinous competition on the grounds of sportsmanship. Touched, many debutantes promised that they would...