Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Highway 40, west of Denver, the Colorado State Highway Department put up a regulation bull's-eye target next to a curve sign, planned to put up more if the first one diverted the "chowderheads with guns" who shoot up 3,000 road signs annually...
...massive roadblock stands in the way of getting that money from Congress. Last fortnight the U.S. Senate Special War Investigating committee had some tough words to say about the highway. The committee concerned itself little with the road's prewar history, much with the wartime chapters, when German submarines threatened sea lanes in the Caribbean and a rush job sought to drive the highway through to Panama...
Wanton Waste. The politics-minded committee called the wartime work a "wanton waste of the taxpayers' money." It cited "flagrant" overpayments to contractors, and a wasteful detour in Nicaragua so that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...
...many a U.S. citizen, as to many a Latino, an inglorious chapter in the highway's past seemed less important than the highway's future. Mexico was going ahead, would have the road completed by 1949 from border to border. Said Salvadoran President Castaneda: "The Government and people of El Salvador want to see the highway finished through Central America. It will strengthen the economic unity and friendship of our countries...
...year-old Georgia Peach was driving with his onetime housekeeper, 38-year-old Lucille La Pointe. When she was nabbed for a traffic violation, Cobb started riding the justice of the peace from the sidelines. The justice blew up, jailed Cobb for "being drunk on the public highway," later released him on $25 bail...