Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best hope for uniting the nations of Central America was the still uncompleted Inter-American highway. Binding together the five mountain-bound capitals, carrying goods and ideas as daily freight, it might win where a century of diplomacy had failed...
...line of cars hurtled down a six-lane highway in bright daylight. Suddenly, a shift in the wind whipped smoke from a burning garbage dump across the highway, forcing one driver to slow down. In a moment, the line became a screeching, telescoping, side-swiping shambles; 25 ears were wrecked or damaged; 13 people were injured, seven hospitalized. But, except for the number of cars involved, it was routine. Nobody had been killed...
...fishing up around the Alaska Highway was just about the finest in the country. So Major General Frederick Franklin ("Fighting Frank") Worthington assured newsmen. Why didn't they bring their tackle and their sleeping bags and come along? He was going up that way with about 100 officers and men. What for? Why, just to look the country over. There was nothing official about the trip, he said. It was "just one of old Worthington's ideas...
...General had more on his mind than fishing. As chief of the Canadian Army's Western Command, embracing British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories, he has stated bluntly that he considers the area "vulnerable." Among its military assets: the deteriorating Canol pipeline, 120 bridges on the highway between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, a lot of abandoned Army camps, at least four big airports, a latticework of communications. Liabilities: long winter nights, frozen lakes and ground inviting airborne invasion. Perhaps a quick run over the area might uncover some fresh viewpoints on defense...
...winding Connecticut highway, an hour and a half after the final edition closed, Roy Coleman Holliss, 56-year-old acting president of the News Syndicate Co., was killed in a wreck...