Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yellowknife, on the desolate northern shore of Great Slave Lake, center of the new gold rush (TIME, May 13). As the only municipality in the sprawling empire, Yellowknife presented the council last week with unaccustomed problems. For instance: though 420 miles from the nearest railhead and 450 from a highway, Yellowknife has a flourishing taxicab business, carrying passengers between town, airport and mines. The local administration wanted the right to regulate the cab business. The council said yes. It also gave the boomtown authorities power to deliver water (there is no plumbing), to dispose of garbage, and to levy...
...people had filed past. Now, inside St. Paul's, the Very Reverend Kirk B. O'Ferrall read the service. The crowd filed out and a Packard hearse carried the body of Henry Ford out along Joy Road to the small family cemetery beside a four-lane highway. Henry Ford had never ridden comfortably in any car but one of his own make; he wouldn't have liked it. They lowered the coffin into a hole in the wet, clayey mud. The rain came down in buckets while the police hustled 20,000 sightseers on their...
...colony has concentrated on rice as a cash crop; Sayão is not sure but that cotton or coffee might be better. Also, the road that was the colony's lifeline leads only to Anapolis' one-horse railway. Now Sayão is driving the highway some 130 miles beyond his colony's limits, to the banks of the Tocantins. There his trucks may meet boats that could carry the goods of Goiaz down to the Amazon...
...acting governor in 1943 (the governor-elect died before taking office), Wisconsin politicians learned that he hadn't changed. The self-styled "tough old codger" tackled every sacred cow and pressure group, from the American Legion to organized labor. He cracked down on lobbyists, gamblers, and battled the highway lobby...
...Coming up the grand trunk highway from New Delhi, you could see as far away as 14 miles clouds of smoke hanging over Amritsar. Now & then the high golden cupola of the Sikh's Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...