Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces, which had driven 70 miles into Eritrea from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, last week took Agordat (see map, p. 23). This town, 2,000 feet up on the Eritrean plateau, is strategically placed at the junction of a railway to Massaua on the Red Sea and a new highway to Addis Ababa. Agordat was defended by one Italian division. In taking the town, the attackers claimed "many hundreds of prisoners," but the Italians were not entirely surrounded, and the main body retreated into increasingly mountainous country behind Agordat...
...Costa Rica $4,600,000 for her section of the two-lane, concrete-curbed Inter-American highway (connecting San José with the Panama border...
...Ecuador for its segment of Inter-American highway $1,000,000, an additional $150,000 to fight a cocoa worm...
After dark, the three guards in the car relaxed. Squadron Leader von Werra opened a window, jumped out, struck westward through the woods to a highway. His facile French got him a ride from a French-Canadian who could not see the German tunic under his passenger's civilian greatcoat. Soon Franz von Werra was in Ottawa. There he begged a road map from a filling station, hitched a ride to somnolent Prescott. All that lay between him and freedom was the broad St. Lawrence. But at that point the river was not frozen over. After dark Werra stole...
...Greeks claimed continuing success against these counterattacks. They said they had taken, and turned against the Italians, "highly impressive" new enemy fortifications near Corizza. At a mountain pass, a bomb dislodged a huge boulder, blocked a highway and trapped a convoy of 100 trucks, which the Greeks said they bombed to destruction. The Greeks still had things to laugh about: they heard that the new Italian Commander in Chief, Ugo Cavallero, had chosen to go to Albania the safe way-by land through neutral Yugoslavia, disguised as an engineer...