Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after lunch a five-car Presidential cavalcade sped from the White House out of Washington to U. S. 50 (the Defense Highway), twisted over the wet, slippery road, through piny woods and swamps on the way to Annapolis. With the President were Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark, White House Secretary "Pa" Watson, Naval Aide Daniel Callaghan, eight Secret Service men. As there was no precedent for Lord Halifax's stepping down from the Foreign Office to become Ambassador to the U. S., so there was no precedent for President Roosevelt...
...reconstruction plan of vast perspective to the Cabinet. In it he recommended that such Gordian knots as land-tenure complexities and conflicting powers of local authorities be resolutely slashed, that reconstruction be planned on a mammoth scale with decentralized industry, new housing arrangements and social amenities for workers, highway planning, and reapportionment of land on the principle that all land of whatever category must be used for the communities' benefit...
...miles an hour, highest since the big blow of 1920. All over the Northwest trees and power lines crashed to earth: 20 towns were without electricity until next forenoon; two brothers were electrocuted when a wire fell on to their automobile. On one 100-mile stretch of Oregon highway, 30 big trees dropped across the pavement, stopped traffic dead. A Washington State patrolman used his brakes in a hurry when a trunk fell right in front of him. When he got out to look, another landed right behind, trapped him for fair. At the Kelso (Wash.) municipal airport, the gale...
...bloomed under irrigation; oil towns fed wealth to the cities along the Gulf. But through all Texas' titanic changes, the 1,500 miles of wire fence still surrounded the fiat coastal plains and brush land of the King and Kenedy ranches. The Hug-the-Coast Highway from Houston through Corpus Christi cut straight across country-until it came to the fence at the Kenedy County line. Then it detoured 23 miles west, 46 miles south. 23 east again before it could go on. For 20 years citizens beefed to the Legislature, but Kenedy County remained closed to highway builders...
...road is valuable-it links ten deepwater harbors in Texas-but all this enthusiasm was not evoked merely because 46 miles of highway had been moved 23 miles nearer the water. Texans celebrated because they now had a right of way through land previously barred to Texans...