Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crowded Charing Cross Road would be crossed by a flying bridge on a broad highway leading to Piccadilly Circus, which would become rectangular...
...this one. "Possibly my reflections may give others a rest from the present grim business," he concluded, "by reminding them of older and better wars." High aim of U.S. Army maneuvers in Tennessee (see p. 67) is the development of imaginative resourcefulness in the individual soldier. On a Tennessee highway one soldier, lost-looking, ambling, alone, without his gun, caught the eye of Lieut. General Ben Lear, who stopped his car, ordered him in. On the man's shoulder was a white rag-mark of an umpire. The soldier explained: "I'm a neutral, sir." More and firmer...
...Persia at Russia's back door-with a beat that might call for his jumping almost a thousand miles west to Aleppo or south to the Indian Ocean. Last month he took a 560-mile trip north to the Caspian and the Soviet border-along the dusty, rutted highway that is now Russia's "Burma Road." Near the Lake of Urmia, at Tabriz, he saw U.S. sergeants more than 12,000 miles from home helping Soviet workmen assemble army trucks-later talked with Red Army officers and men moving around the southern curve of the Caspian...
...have pondered the U.S. Navy's tables of comparative U.S. and Japanese naval losses and wondered how Japan could keep on fighting. Max Werner takes the simple view that "pure sea power-ship v. ship-no longer means much." To the Japanese, the Pacific Ocean was merely a highway; warships were mainly vehicles for transporting the men & weapons of land-air power to the places of conquest. Thus, it will take U.S. land & air power, supported by incidental sea power, to recover what the Japanese seized...
...been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon River to Manaos are stopped: the woodcutters have slipped into the jungles to gather rubber for better pay. In Andean-wrinkled Chile and Peru where railroads are few, highway routes are all-important, few trucks have gasoline to run and even they are being laid up as tires wear...