Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually Big Jim goes for publicity like a drunk for a bottle. But last week he just slipped a posy into his buttonhole, picked up Jamelle (who quit her job in the Highway Department), and took off from the Governor's Mansion. Forty miles north, Jim and Jamelle got married in the Rockford Baptist Church. Twittered the brunette, 21-year-old bride: "I feel like I'm going around in circles." Gruffed the groom: "She's not the wife of the governor-she's the wife of Jim Folsom...
...Approved a threeyear, $1.5 billion federal highway-building program...
...opponent was Incumbent Lee Price, a Republican. The big campaign issue was a proposed $30 million express highway across the city. Republican Price plumped hard for it. Democrat Lundy said he'd kill it 30 minutes after he was sworn in. He adopted a homely slogan: "I may not be so blamed smart, but I can find my way home...
After trekking 75 miles west to the Alaska Highway at Trutch, B.C., Farrel got the news through. Last week R.C.A.F. men flew north from Fort St. John to get Pich's body. Farrel had told them where to look for it: in a snowy tree's branches, safe from the wolves...
Where U.S. Highway 75 broadens into Main Street, there is Sioux Center, Iowa. Sioux Center is a Corn Belt town of 2,000 people. Of a Saturday evening, shiny new Fords and Plymouths, parked at an angle to the curb, line both sides of the street. Back from the broad sidewalks, the one-story frame and brick buildings house a pair of hash-houses, a Rexall drugstore, a Chevrolet agency, Dejong's Hatchery. There are no traffic lights...