Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italian Blessings. Brutal in conquest, the Italians were energetic imperialists. Their engineers, with sweating soldier-workmen and native labor, blasted, graded, bridged and finally smoothed 4,340 miles of asphalt and macadam highway over Ethiopia's desert areas, muddy lowlands, rolling valleys, deep ravines and high, broad plateaus. Some 10,000 miles of lesser roads were opened...
Today ATC, big as it is, is still only a skeleton of the vast structure it will become by the end of this year. Its operating lines already vein the world. Its freighter pilots fly along the Alaska highway, past Whitehorse to Fairbanks; its delivery flyers whip fighters and bombers close to Bering Strait to be turned over to Russia for the eastern front. Freighters, and bombers on the way to combat, cross central Canada to Greenland, Iceland, Britain. They blanket the Caribbean and sweep across Mexico. They fly down both sides of South America...
...Milan, when official administration collapsed in the confusion of British bombing raids, Fascist administrators joined the general flight from the city. At highway crossroads, little groups of work ers stopped all passers, examined identification papers, forced Fascist Party mem bers to return and restore order...
Over the Hump. Near Missoula, Mont., southbound Motorist Aubrey Knowles found the highway blocked by a landslide, peeked over, found a thwarted northbound motorist; the two traded cars, went happily...
...Army sergeants, one a thin Dev onshire boy named William Brown and one a slight young man named Joseph Randall of State Center, Iowa, stopped on the Gafsa-Gabes highway at midafternoon to day, shook hands and slapped each other on the back. ... By the time the red sun sank splendidly behind western ranges British liaison officers were gradually filtering into Gafsa demanding: 'Have you Yanks got any beer?'"-from New York Times Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger's account of the first meeting of U.S. and British Eighth Army patrols, which took place between Gafsa and Gabes...