Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild and hair-raising had been the abductor's "charming supervision." Once, on his headlong drive through the high Sierras, the car had plunged over a 40-foot embankment. Clambering back with the child, he seized at gun's point the next car that came along the highway. Miraculously unharmed, Marc was back in his mother's arms that evening...
...Alaska and the Orient." And proud is Seattle of great, 20-mile-long Lake Washington, which Seattle considers hers although it stretches far beyond the city limits. Lake Washington is beautiful but sometimes a nuisance. Seattle's main gateway to the east is North Bend on the Sunset Highway, until recently a 42-mile ride. The road could have been 14 miles shorter had not Lake Washington lain athwart...
Three years ago, the State of Washington pondered plans for spanning deep, blue Lake Washington. Because of the unstable mud bottom, State highway engineers figured that an orthodox bridge, without approaches, would cost $18,000,000. Lacey V. Murrow, Director of Highways, and Charles E. Andrew, consulting engineer, decided that a pontoon bridge, approaches and all, could be built for $8,854,400. PWA offered to chip in $3,794,400. Seattle's City Council squeezed through a 5-to-4 endorsement...
Michigan. Drawing like a sump pump, good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson, 81, dredged up more than twice the combined vote of his six Republican opponents. As a warning to his Democratic opponent, State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, Oldster Dickinson cackled: "Probably tens of thousands of my friends didn't vote for me, because I'm 81 years of age. . . . You can't blame them." Isolationist Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg won by 8-to-1 over a Detroit razor blade salesman named Bowen R. Grover...
...passenger he speeded back to Huntsville, where he had passed a detachment of Canadian troops parading to church. As he pulled into the town, he saw them still marching jauntily up the street. As the car slowed, his passenger jumped out and started walking fast, away from the highway...