Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Frost, whose crossroads general store out on Highway 31 did $68,000 worth of business last year, figures trade will be a little off this year, but not much. Said Bill: "Nobody is worrying much. It's only when you're in debt that you start worrying, and I don't know anyone who is in debt." Crop prospects are good. Said Farmer Horton: "I don't look for prices to go a whole lot lower. We're not alarmed." "Nope, things don't look too bad," echoed Mrs. Horton, shutting the door...
Billy's trailers were laden with explosive isobutane, as he barreled along on Franklin Canyon Highway one day last week. On a curve outside Pinole, Calif., he swung around a car. Another car was coming toward him. A woman was driving, and there were three kids in the back seat. Billy saw the car waver, then veer to the wrong side of the road. Billy wrenched at the big wheel, sent the rig thundering off the pavement, across a shallow ditch, through a barbed-wire fence...
...changes to date. It urged that the power of the Department of Commerce be greatly increased by giving it the jurisdiction over all U.S. transportation, now scattered in a dozen bureaus. Under the Hoover plan, Commerce would take over: ¶ The Interstate Commerce Commission's executive powers over highway and rail traffic (including responsibility for safety and railroad consolidation plans). ¶ All functions of the Office of Defense Transportation. ¶ The Maritime Commission's operations involving shipping purchases, sales, loans and subsidies. ¶ Direction of the Public Roads Administration, now in the Federal Works Agency. ¶ Control...
Propaganda. In Vidette, Ark., half the voters had to wade knee-deep across a water-flooded highway bridge before they reached the polling place to vote on a state bond issue for highway improvement...
...secret of steering Shady Corner is not much different from the way a speeding motorist takes a highway curve when there is no white line. An experienced Mt. Van Hoevenberg bobber comes in high on the left side of the chute (about two to five feet below the crest), then steers down and out of it, picking up speed as he goes. A bobsledder who doesn't take Shady that way is likely to lose time, get out of rhythm and/or wind up in a hospital. Says one World War II airplane pilot, who tried a $1.50 ride: "There...