Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latest find was newscasting Forger Bonnie Bondurant who as a rule confines his remarks to life within the walls, like the embarkation of chain gangs: "Early this morning a number of boys left . . . for an extended camping trip. Incidental to the camping, a few problems in highway construction will be worked out." Quipped he in a recent commentary on outside events: "I see where President Roosevelt is seeking a third term. I can't see why. I've had two and that's enough...
...first-rate tourist stops." These Ritzes of the far-flung industry prefer the name motor court to tourist camp (auxiliary name: motel), cater only to bona fide tourists. Typical of them is Pines Camp Cottages and Trailer Court in the outskirts of Valdosta, Ga., on U. S. Highway No. 41, no miles north of Jacksonville. Started 15 years ago by a former carnival showman and amusement park builder named Henry Bertram Aldrich, Pines Camp today has a $50,000 plant complete with 55 modern stucco cottages (hot water, steam heat, electricity, private bath & shower, etc.), filling station, restaurant, laundry, grocery...
Motor transport figures were something else again. Taking highway users in the mass, Coordinator Eastman's report concluded that in four years (1933-37) they had paid in State and local gasoline and license taxes $276,961,000 more than their fair share of the cost of the roads. Items (in 1932): Tractor-trailers (more than five tons) paid $832 in taxes, should have paid only $545 of road costs. School busses paid only $77, should have paid $5 more. Passenger cars paid $26, hit their responsibility on the nose. Underlying these estimates was a basic assumption: that since...
...costs, Government the rest. Eastman's: "Their [the railroads'] contentions impress me as being carried to extreme limits." But Railroader Pelley also reminded his hearers why railroad and truck taxes cannot, should not be compared-the railroads own and pay property taxes on their right of ways, highway haulers...
Norwegian troops, in the craggy hills along the route, allowed the Germans to advance 25 miles to Gratangen and then struck across the highway at Oesevatten at the Germans' rear, cutting off their retreat...