Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grain. Forty-four years ago Chicagoans took pride in their new Board of Trade Building at Jackson Boulevard and La Salle Street. Antiquated, this building was last week abandoned, to be replaced by a $20,000,000 building on the same site. Centre of grain trading for 44 years, the old building has seen trading in eleven billion bushels of "cash" grain, amounting to 6,000,000 full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title...
...conjunction with the new signal controls which will allow an uninterrupted cruising speed of 15 miles an hour in downtown traffic the Engineering Division will increase the number of through streets of arterial boulevards. This is the second plan of revision and should aid a great deal in preventing traffic congestion. At present there are only two through streets Commonwealth Avenue and Blue Hill Boulevard...
...cities grow, however, cities awaken. Chicago has taken its shore lines in hand, built new land with sandsuckers and made a new outer-driveway to the south as well as a made-land drive skirting Lincoln Park on the lakeside and a riverside boulevard (Wacker Drive) around scow-ridden reaches of the Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street...
...Chicago. With them went a dozen other friends and his son, Arthur. At Englewood, a company of politicians boarded the train to converse with a strangely unenthusiastic Al. At the La Salle Street Station, massed battalions of Democracy seethed to glimpse an Al arrayed in black. Up Michigan Boulevard sped a strangely guarded Al-dozens of motorcycle police, five detectives, three machine guns. Columns of people lined the streets, blackened the windows-people who scarcely saw the Al who almost hid in the corner...
Clang! Clang!-an ambulance rushed through Moscow, turned with a lurch into the Boulevard Lubianka, and pulled up before the most dread address in Russia...