Word: asphalt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away. Firing political jobholders, he saved $45,507 in operating costs the first year. He laid 100,000 new crossties, rebuilt the locomotives, repaired the buildings, bought a new Diesel. Then he helped get the Hatteras Oil Co. to set up offices at Morehead City and start shipping its asphalt...
...Army Lieutenant James Wilson, a trucking veteran, to boss all operations; hiring of 31 American mechanics and dispatchers ; putting into service 4,500 new, heavy-duty American trucks, now arriving at the rate of 500 per week; resumption of the paving project with 10,000 tons of U.S. asphalt. Soon to appear are such other innovations as a police patrol, radio communications between control points...
Similar preclusive deals with other South American countries are in the cards. Economic diplomats in Washington look to Colombia's platinum and mercury; Bolivia's tin and tungsten; Chile's copper and nitrates; Venezuela's asphalt and oil-many another product the U.S. can use and ought to keep out of Axis hands...
More than 150,000 race fans turned out last week to celebrate Memorial Day in Indianapolis, i.e., the Indianapolis Auto Race, a 500-mile grind over a two-and-a-half-mile, brick-&-asphalt oval. Just before the start, the crowd listened to a radio message from the speedway's president, onetime Driver Eddie Rickenbacker, still in hospital in Atlanta from the plane crack-up that killed eight of his fellow passengers last February. "I hope and wish," said Captain Rickenbacker, "that this great outdoor laboratory will be permitted to carry on to help national defense...
...Tokyo." Even sympathetic colleagues were abashed at his belligerency. Unsympathetic colleagues saw red. (Isolationist Senator Tobey, picking up a story written by Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Thomas L. Stokes, suggested that Senator Pepper had used his office to get part of a defense contract for a Florida asphalt company, thereby precipitating such a rancorous side battle that the Senate finally expunged the debate from the record...