Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first four groups wore drawn from the ranks of professional civilian engineers. After a short basic, period they were sent to Harvard. Highway engineers, soil conservation experts, and men from the Bureau of Reclamation were represented...
Marden docked in San Francisco twelve days and eleven hours from the time of embarkation, with his twenty dollars still intact. After a cursory study of highway maps, which consisted mainly in picking out a broad red band that seemed to stretch from San Francisco to Boston, he again shouldred his pack and hit the road. Eight days later, dead-tired, broke, but happy, the New Zealander triumphantly entered the suburbs of Boston...
...Colonel General Konstantin Rokossovsky, 50, one of the tallest (6 ft. 4 in.) officers in the Red Army. He was a Czarist major in the last war, joined the Red Guards in 1917. During the defense of Moscow he commanded the central sector on the Smolensk highway, later was shifted to the south. His armies were part of the Red pincers which trapped the Germans at Stalingrad. Now he is mopping up the Don Bend...
Laborers worked night & day on the stone and macadam highway along the coast. A railroad to Tobruk carried some of the load after engineers restored it. Ships edged along the shore. Rush orders had to be carried by giant transport planes. Supply trucks, given priority, frequently moved ahead of all but the very advanced troops. One story was told of a bakery unit dashing into Matrûh, where a German officer stepped forth and growled: "You arrived too soon...
Public Servant. In Red Hook, N.Y., Highway Supervisor Oliver E. Rider decided not to collect $1,225 owing him for road improvement, explained to the town board in a letter: "In view of the fine spirit of economy you have shown to the taxpayers of our town by doubling your own salaries and decreasing mine, I feel sorry for the taxpayers, and have arranged to make a present of this bill to the town...