Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others were luckier. In Kansas, Mrs. D. O. Durr peered out of the snow-framed windows of her farmhouse and, like many other farm wives, knew what to expect. Soon refugees started straggling in from nearby highway No. 96-a couple with a three-months-old child, a 90-year-old man, stranded linemen. For two days and nights, Mrs. Durr had 39 guests. As the storm raged on, they feasted on corned beef brisket, little pig sausage, green beans, dozens of eggs and gallons of milk. The women shared the beds; the men slept on the floor. Mrs. Durr...
...insistent on speed and convenience, and indifferent to comfort, the boats had no place. As for scenery, modern man was now conditioned to taking it in a new form, as a thin strip that flicked past, like a long, evenly unwinding tape, on either side of a concrete highway-the kind he could see without turning his head...
Last week, government atomic experts were hoping it would all turn out to be as good as it looked. The new find is only two miles from a highway, and is right on the line of traffic down the Great Lakes, much handier than distant Eldorado, in the Northwest Territories, Canada's only proved source of uranium. Toronto investors were willing to bet big money that the new strike was the real thing. By week's end, shares in Campbell's syndicate, which he peddled last spring for $25 apiece, were bringing bids of $1,000. Prospector...
Jazz is the feature at the Savoy, which offers Bob Wilber this week, for those who want to sit at little tables and strain their careerism. Tops in the out-on-the-highway-field are the Totem Pole and the Meadows...
...Dewey landslide, now pulled itself together fast. It was set to stage one of the biggest of its conquering heroes' welcomes. Government workers and schoolchildren were let out for the event; hours before the President's train arrived, every perch and post on the hero's highway of Pennsylvania Avenue was taken. Police estimated the crowd...