Description: Vial of injectable progesterone. Syringe. Packages of prescription drugs lined up along shelf.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/02/1983
Description: Theories about breast cancer link it to alcohol, smoking, or birth control pills. New study speculates about high fat diet as cause, and another explores vitamins as preventive.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/04/1991
Description: Project Bread raises money for food for needy people by selling spoons decorated by children. Canned goods being placed on shelves in Somerville food pantry. Hunger.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1989
Description: Crushed cars and construction scrap become shredded metal, recycled by Prolerized Company, whose end-product is cited for contamination by PCBs and toxic materials.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/22/1988
Description: Prop 2 1/2 Chelsea, MA; storefronts, elderly people playing bocce. Janet Wu.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1981
Description: Reps. Flaherty, Flood, Clapprood comment on proposed temporary increase in state income tax. State House halls, people in front of House chamber door, tote board, speaker's rostrum.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/05/1989
Description: Interview with Arthur Lane, president of Boston Shipping Association, on importance of having new container port serving Boston to maintain shipping industry. Proposes new facility in Lynn across Gen. Edwards Bridge because of accessibility and lack of conflicting use. Parsons Brinckerhoff estimates $132 million to build with five container cranes. Major dredging necessary. Japanese companies already threaten to stop shipping to port of Boston because it is too slow. Potential for 45,000 jobs in 15 years. Lane says Boston lacks foresight to develop shipping industry, is second class, and could become just a barge depot for Halifax and NYC. Boston money “too tied up in trust funds in financial district.” Map, aerial photo and artist's rendering.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1979
Description: Three thirty-second advertisements against Proposition 2 1/2 - “Vote no on question 2.” Referendum.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/06/1980
Description: Proposition 2 1/2 in Chelsea, MA.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/21/1980
Description: Hull town manager lists jobs and municipal services to be eliminated if Proposition 2 1/2 override does not pass. Town of Hull sign, waterfront, houses. Hull and Hingham fire engines. Smoldering, charred house.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/06/1991