Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President over our lines, and approximately 20 key supervisors were assigned to various key locations in case of any difficulties. Specially selected coal was used; supervisors, master carpenters, bridge inspectors, track foremen and trackwalkers covered the entire right-of-way to examine all bridges and all track conditions; highway crossings which normally were unprotected at night were given special protection to guard against automobiles striking the train...
Beside the highway into Dachau there runs a spur line off the Munich railroad. Here a soldier stopped us and said: "I think you better take a look at these box-cars." The cars were filled with dead men. Most of them were naked. On their bony, emaciated backs and rumps were whip marks. Most of the cars were open-top cars like American coal cars. I walked along these cars and counted 39 of them which were filled with these dead. The smell was very heavy. I cannot estimate with any reasonable accuracy the number of dead...
...Armored ("Hell on Wheels") Division amazingly spurted 50 miles to the Elbe River. Next day the Third's 6th Armored moved up 46 miles to the vicinity of Jena. Next day the same Army's famed 4th Armored sped 32 miles across the railroads and highway linking Berlin and Munich. Thereafter enemy traffic had to take the roundabout route through Dresden and Prague...
...rade. Near Albany, motorists rolled up their windows, shot into reverse when a congregation of some 300 skunks ambled slowly across the state highway...
...farms. Members of the Philippine Motor Transport Association appealed to President Sergio Osmeña's Government for help. Early in 1941 they had turned over to the U.S. Army some 2,000-odd busses. Now these were gone, and unless new busses could be brought in, highway travel would remain at a standstill...