Move to 'burbs stresses state's old highways
         Leaving the city and heading for the Cape

Early skirmish in battle over Narragansett Bay


Long exodus of jobs accelerates


Preservationists begin to halt wrecking ball of urban renewal


Politically, machines were in gear
        Speaker of the House: Joe Martin of N. Attleboro

Photo captions

Road Map:
A highway plan gets a look from Pawtucket councilman Albert E. Noelte, left, Pawtucket Mayor Charles F. Reynolds, center, and Wilbur S. Smith, a Yale University traffic expert, in 1953.

Row Housing: These homes, priced at $8,750, were sold to returning war veterans.

—Journal files

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