Word: carquinez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each day at dawn an explosion of sound reverberates through the hills above California's Carquinez Strait, 30 miles up San Pablo Bay from San Francisco and the Golden Gate. At the sandy tip of a new superhighway pushing across the hills from Richmond to the industrial town of Crockett, an army of mammoth machines comes noisily to life; their motors growl and their exhausts spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before...
...mechanical behemoths, such jobs as the Carquinez cut are only a warmup for the greatest road-building challenge in U.S. history: a vast, 16-year highway-building program that will crisscross the nation with a 41,000-mile interstate superhighway network,* plus thousands of miles of state and local roads. The program will be the largest public-works project in history, dwarfing the construction of the Roman road system and the Great Wall of China. The interstate network will reach into every corner of the U.S.-75% of it over new routes-to link 42 state capitals...
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