Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roads led to Rome last week, and the Romans used them, lickety-split. Along a rock-&-gravel supply highway which Marshal Rodolfo Graziani had just completed from Sidi Barrani back to bases in Libya, Italy's Army of the stagnant Egyptian invasion ran for its life. Along an Albanian road hugging the cliffs spectacularly from Porto Edda to Valona, built by the Italians during the last war and subject of great engineering pride with them, Italy's Army of the reversible Greek invasion made further headway backwards. The Italians were so completely on the run that Adolf Hitler...
Farther along the Pan-American Highway, where the foothills with their sharp banks crowd each other like a pack of the cruel little boars of the Mexican brush, the Señor Henry Wallace saw signs of the event for which he had made his first crossing of the Rio Grande. Painted on the rock cuts near Tamazunchale (an old Huasteca Indian name pronounced by gringos Thomas & Charlie) were huge letters: TODO MEXICO CON AVILA CAMACHO -All Mexico with Avila Camacho...
...second show to be given by the Workshop is Wallace Hamilton's "Super Highway"; Goldston's unnamed story concerning the efforts of Cotton Mather to become President of the College and how his plans were feiled; and "Legend of Chocorua," by Malcolm Murphy...
Builder Moisseiff said only that the bridge failed because engineers do not yet know enough about aerodynamics, that lack of funds had forced the building of a bridge unprecedentedly narrow for its length. In Tacoma, chief engineer of the bridge, Clark Eldridge, charged bitterly that State highway engineers had protested the design, had been told that Federal money-lending agencies demanded the employment of a nationally famous engineer as a requirement for lending the money. With the bridge covered by insurance, Tacoma citizens waited to find out whether it could be rebuilt, whether the same towers and approaches could...
...Michigan, a vote against godly Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 81, Republican, was by implication a vote for sin. Nevertheless, Michiganders sided against the angels, voted in up-&-coming Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, who had quietly built himself a steam roller to ride...