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...curbside parking meters. Letters poured in from cities as far away as Britain, asking about the feasibility of this unprecedented backtracking-the result of a determined campaign by Realtor Richard D. Tourtelot, who managed to convince St. Petersburg officials that the meters were the major factor in the blight that had fallen on the city's downtown area. Downtown doldrums are getting to be pandemic, and if meter removal was a solution, other cities wanted to know about...
Recruits for Resurgence. Tucker recruited the city's business leaders to help work on problems ranging from slum clearance to the downtown traffic tangle. To fight blight while bringing the city budget back from the red, Tucker pushed through a $110 million public-improvements bond issue, lured in federal and private capital to help...
...class filled the UT but it also overflowed to hear speeches on national and international politics, demonstrated for aid to refugees, and energetically debated the New Deal and neutralism. It entered amidst the depression's blight and graduated into a world darkened by impending...
...overcome this blight, Pusey urged educated men to involve themselves in the unfinished work of society. "They have seen the captivating moments in human history," Pusey said, "when spiritual quality, imagination, determination, concern, and enterprise have arrested the blight and fostered beauty in human affairs...
Central Kitchens: Blessing or Blight. Ever wondered what you get back for those outrageous board prices? By tracing the life and death of a Central Kitchen hamburger, we will prove how waste, inefficiency, and staff featherbedding have run riot in the College Dining Halls...