Word: asphalts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer," a cabbie was saying to his buddie, who nodded in agreement. They both knew it wouldn't and so did Vag. He knew it would be hot, damned hot, and he thought of those stifling summer afternoons when the streets would be deserted and quite and the asphalt would be wet with the curved lines of tire treads...
Canyons, in City and Country. But O'Keeffe's chief claim to fame lies in the brilliant hardness of her most ambitious work. Her cityscapes look as unyielding as asphalt, and sharp as broken glass; her barns are as antiseptic as hospitals; her crosses as forbidding as the real thing...
Notice for Voters. The provincial treasury sent along $6,000 for a public hall and playgrounds. The Liberals promised to match this with $13,000 if they won-$100 if they lost. Premier Duplessis sent in batches of rural electrical equipment, followed by bulldozers, trucks and asphalt to pave Beauce County roads...
...Iranian production unit built two huge General Motors assembly plants in the heart of the desert, and even got so that it could put a truck together in five minutes flat. P.G.C. engineers carried on from there. Every day bulldozers roared out into the desert, every day the new asphalt highway stretched a few miles farther...
Nerve Center. A few dirt roads had once meandered through Guam's hills. Now three-and four-lane paved highways laced the island, leading from harbor to cold-storage plants, asphalt works and ammo dumps. Spread across the island were neat tent cities where marines lived between campaigns, rest camps where submarine crews breathed the fresh smell of jungles, recreation centers where Navymen played baseball, drank strictly rationed beer. Four Fleet and three Army hospitals could accommodate nearly 10,000 patients, and back & forth along the asphalt highways roll caravans of khaki ambulances with their pitiful loads...