Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cost in Men. Last week there was startling testimony to this paradoxical fact. It was announced in London that since the invasion of Poland, more Britons had been killed or injured by highway accidents than the United Kingdom's total of killed, wounded, missing and prisoners in the fighting services...
...fight their battles, took pride in the fact that well over half of them (387,996) were men from the United Kingdom. Yet the strange fact (announced by Philip J. Noel-Baker, for the Ministry of War Transport) was that in the same period 588,742 Britons had become highway victims...
Sleepy Eye. Near Sleepy Eye, Minn., Truck Driver Louis Melzer was recovering nicely from multiple arm-and-leg fractures, after being knocked out in a collision, laid out on the highway by a good Samaritan, run over by a passerby, backed over by the same...
...have his combining done; paid $1,000 in old seed loans, $800 in back taxes, $400 in income taxes; bought a seed drill, a wind charger, a secondhand Ford, an electric cream separator, a washing machine, an electric iron and a radio; surfaced the road leading up to the highway. He still had money left to buy war bonds and plunk in the bank...
...town, where the main highway, No. 6, curves sharply and passes around the base of Mt. Cassino, the Germans held the Hotel Continental, somewhat protected from Allied artillery by the lee of the hill. Its roof is gone, and its heavy, pastel-tinted walls have been scored by shellfire and bomb blast, but from the dark empty sockets of its windows German guns spit with terrible effectiveness. Once the hotel was nearly captured: the Germans holding it surrendered. During an explosive bombardment the hotel filled up again with green-clad German paratroopers. Three German tanks fired from the lobby, occasionally...