Word: districts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munroe-Langstroth Contractors of North Attleboro started to dig into the Charles last Wednesday on a one-year, $732,000 contract with the Metropolitan District Commission. The whole project, including the access roads on both sides of the river and an extension of Mem Drive to Arsenal Street, Watertown, will cost another...
...remember Eliot as "the man who made Harvard what it is today." And Charles Eliot '82, son of the President, was one of three landscape architects who stirred up public pressure for preservation of Boston's parks and river fronts which resulted in the creation of the Metropolitan District Commission...
...Eliot Bridge will serve as a crucial and long-needed link between the communities south of the Charles and the Concord Turnpike, between the northern and southern halves of the western section of the metropolitan district. If you have trouble getting across the Anderson Bridge to the Stadium this afternoon, remember the ageless war cry: "Wait till next year...
...Paul R. Hawley, onetime Veterans Administration medical boss and now executive director for Blue Cross-Blue Shield, is dead set against compulsory health insurance. He is also a realist. In Washington last week, speaking to the District Medical Society, he sounded a warning: doctors getting set for an all-out fight against compulsory health insurance had better put their own house in order. Hawley had been talking to people all over the country, he said, and "I've come to the conclusion, with a great deal of regret, that the confidence of some of our people has been shaken...
...sent to the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. for using the mails to defraud. When in Washington as Congressman from the 11th District (Cambridge and Somerville). Curley had been the nominal president of the Engineer's Group, Inc., a company dedicated to the purpose of getting government contracts for small businesses. The Truman Committee, investigating the Group, caught up with the promoter James G. Fuller, a notorious confidence man. In the proceedings, it was found that Curley had accepted a $3500 check for services along the way. Therefore, in a trial in the District of Columbia, Justice James K. Prector...