Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat lay heavily on the paved sidewalks, the trim houses beside the highway. In a cell in the county jail a young Negro waited too. Eddie Lee Spivey, 28, a sharecropper with a good reputation, married, with two children, had been arrested for rape the night before. Up in his farming community of Mt. Airy, a 65-year-old white woman had been attacked as she crossed a field to her son's house. Bloodhounds had followed tracks from the scene of the crime to a spot near Spivey's house...
Ever since his election in 1936, Warren Magnuson has been trying to get Congressional funds for a highway from Seattle to Alaska. He is chairman of the Alaskan International Highway Commission, has helped survey the wild terrain through which the road would pass, has flown over every mile of the proposed route...
...home there. When at last he and his wife decided that their picture collection had outgrown their Chicago house, he knew exactly what to do about it. Late last winter his smart, low, $250,000 museum stood completed in West Palm Beach-bounded on one end by the Dixie Highway, on the other by the road from Miami. Says Norton: "It is just the right kind of place for such an institution. Results since the gallery opened confirm our belief. Lots of lookers...
...Deal enterprises. In the 2,351 miles between the grain elevators and ore docks of Duluth and the broad mouth of the St. Lawrence, the inland waters drop 602 feet, roar over rapids, dodge many an island. The Seaway project would make these waters a marine highway at least 27 feet deep, so that ocean vessels could sail from Lake ports to the whole maritime world. This would require at least 18 big locks, many canals, much dredging. Estimated cost, including facilities already built: $379,252,000-about the cost of the Panama Canal...
...completion of the Axis-built highway from Oran to Dakar...