Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshfield, Ore., gaffers watched incredulously as a woman maneuvered a State Highway Commission steam roller down the main street...
...undue, and feel sure that even the General will not like it, as he must be aware that a Fairbanks resident, Donald MacDonald Sr., has worked the project over in every shape and form for 13 years, thus acquiring the flattering title of "Father of the International Highway...
...Engineer MacDonald, a great road builder and visionary, all credit for his longtime dream of a U.S. Alaska highway. But MacDonald bitterly protested against the route picked for the Hoge highway, fought for a route nearer the coast. TIME doubts that Engineer MacDonald would belittle General Hoge's part in making the dream of an Alaska highway come true at last...
...from the U.S. air supply base at Karachi in India, winds north through Kabul in Afghanistan to Samarkand in Russia. From there goods will be sent along the central Asia plains on the Turkestan-Siberian railway to the Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking. The other route leads from Bushire on the Persian Gulf across Iran and then by water to Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Sea. From there the goods will be shipped on to Alma...
...improve its Central American relations. No longer merely a place where bananas come from, Central America has great strategic importance, not only for naval and air bases but as the only land bridge to the vital Panama Canal. More than anything else in past history, the Pan American Highway, being rushed to completion at a cost of $80,000,000 in Central America alone, has brought the republics together. Where present roads and rails run east and west from ocean to ocean, the new highway will tie them all up with a north-south route facilitating trade and making boundaries...