Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alaska Highway ("a highway that would stretch from Paris to Moscow") was covered by Bridson in a first-rate script that caught the U.S. idiom ("Boy, I never knew anything could be so cold. It must be about a thousand below"), the feel of the country ("Spring . . . the air's full of the sound of running water, the gurgle of streams and the chatter of rivers below the ice"), and the temper of the men who built it ("Eight miles a day-and only a thousand miles...
...last year the Alaska Highway brought briskness to Editor Moore's idyllic retreat. Thousands of inflooding U.S. Army engineers and private construction workers transformed Whitehorse into something unreal. Circulation of the Star did not zoom: there are still only some 600 Stargazers. But the job printing orders went up like a rocket. Officers and contractors now bang on the Star's door with orders for letterheads, record forms, tickets, contracts, etc., in thousands...
...Highway. Even more illogical to the Committee is the vast horde of trucks held by the War Department, while the 4,500,000 civilian trucks are rapidly falling apart. This year civilian truckers got only 54,000 new trucks, about one-tenth their 1941 truck replacements, and only 31,000 vehicles are left in the reserve pool...
...Nose. Near Denver, Highway Patrolman Floyd Moore stared at the auto bowling along just ahead of him, listened to a radio description of a stolen car. Sure enough. In Dallas, Patrolman R. H. Lunday gave an autoist a ticket and asked for his phone number. The autoist thought fast, reeled off a number, promptly learned that it was Lunday...
...from the Fifth. The Fifth Army's problem was not a ridge but a pass. Through a break in the mountains around Mignano, 15 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea, runs a main highway to Rome, known since ancient days as the Via Casilina. Entrenched on 3,000-ft. height overlooking the Mignano gate, the Germans had stalemated General Clark's weather-logged British and American troops for almost a month...