Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-handed, lowbrowed Governor Eugene Talmadge had the stage all set for one of his wild political rallies last week. A free fish fry-15.000 lb. of mullet and hushpuppies-had been a-fixing for two days. Little Moultrie (pop. 10,147) was packed with yellow school buses, highway-patrol cars, the sedans of Talmadge's "Palace Guard" at the State Capitol. There was even a bus labeled UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA STUDENTS FOR TALMADGE -though when the passengers stuck their heads out for a photographer only two seemed to be under...
...motorist, onetime King of the Highway, looked more like a funny-cartoon pedestrian each week. A great many Eastern gas tanks were dry, and hell had seen no furies like the motorists who did not have enough gas left to drive around to a service station for gas that was not there...
Americans can stop worrying about the projected 1,500-mile highway to Alaska, because nature has provided another one, of which only 300 miles of road need to be constructed. So claims Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson in the July issue of FORTUNE. Most of his highway consists of the Yukon and Mackenzie Rivers. His 300-mile road would connect the two rivers. Says Stefansson: "In North America the Mackenzie River, second only to the Mississippi system, is the historic commercial highway of northwestern Canada. It begins to be navigable at the head of rail north of Edmonton, and flows almost...
National Lead bought the property in September 1941. Before it could start building, it had to spend $480,000 for an 8¼-mile road to the nearest highway, $500,000 more for a 42-mile, 100,000-volt high-tension line. Meanwhile its engineers lived like explorers in tents and ghost-city shanties. Now the huge crushing plant, wet mill and dry mill are almost complete; operations will be full-scale by mid-July. Total cost: $9,000,000-every cent from National Lead's own till...
While the Japanese have had some success in coordinating transportation in Occupied China, Free China under Chiang Kai Shek has built thousands of miles of roads, including the great Burma Road and the Chinese-Soviet highway, one of the world's longest...