Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pint-sized algebra teacher), 3) cost a mere $20,000,000. This sensational measure, which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...
...have dreamed of a Pan-American highway, happiest dreamer last week was probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over him, is mild, puny, deep-voiced and bashful; he has peanut-sized biceps, and looks wan. Any critical Southern mammy would describe him as "peaked." He is also lionhearted, stubborn, iron-nerved, grimly determined, and a hero...
...scheme of an 11,350-mile Inter-American Highway goes back to 1924. By last week many sections had been built: some 8,000 miles of it were all-weather roads; 2,150 were usable in dry weather; 1,200 were still bullock-cart trails. Only one section was hopelessly blank: between Panama City and Colombia stretched 186 miles of impassable jungle and swampland, with head-hunting Indians lurking behind each tree. Belief was that the highway would have to break off at Panama; that cars would have to be ferried over 1,000 miles around the coast...
...Scores of highway, rivers & harbors, waterworks and pension pork-barrel bills...
Seats. In Denver, Highway Police Supervisor Joseph Marsa, faced with the fact that the department had no money to repair the force's thinning trouser seats, said his men might soon be forced to "call politely out of the car window to traffic violators...