Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troop movement; the cruelty of the heat and cloudless skies was already unbear able. The whole Sixty-Second Army was on foot. As far as you could see, strung over the horizon through rice paddies, in single file along the ruined rail bed, crawling through ditches on the devastated highway, were single files of Chinese troops...
When the frontier villagers along the Alaska Highway saw the U.S. Army throwing away stoves and mattresses, they got mad. Soon to the cities of southern Canada stories drifted back of equipment being destroyed by the ton, of great dumps of discarded goods rising in northern Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon...
...goods allegedly being destroyed are the materiel left behind by U.S. Army builders of the Alaska Highway, now finished. Colonel Frederick S. Strong Jr., chief of the U.S. Army's Northwest Service Command, flatly denied that any wasteful destruction was going on. Major General W. W. Foster, special Canadian commissioner for Northwest defense projects, conceded that some materiel was being destroyed. But he said that it was "materiel which, when reconditioned, will not meet the U.S. Army minimum standards." The Honorable T. A. Crerar, Minister of Mines and Resources, promised everybody an investigation...
...Arizona few weeks ago handsome, 21-year-old 2nd Lieut. Howard Stittsworth, an instructor who should have known better, dove at an automobile on the highway and made a fatal miscalculation. His AT6 trainer flattened out lower than he had expected, ripped one wing through the automobile, decapitated its driver. Somehow, Instructor Stittsworth pulled out, managed to get back home, pulled by a propeller that had lost its tips on the concrete road...
Little Civitella, nine miles off the main highway to Arezzo, has never been described by that careful German traveler, Karl Baedeker. But Italians will remember...