Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take their wives to Lyndon Johnson's Salute to the 89th Congress, their host had other plans for the House. From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on the evening of the party came word that the Representatives should stay in session until they had passed the Administration's highway-beautification bill. After all Lady Bird had set her heart...
...Highway death rates are rising (in absolute terms), as more and more people drive more and more cars. But the death rate per 100 million auto miles driven has dropped from...
Darkly, incredibly the interstate highway that was knifed through Virginia and the Carolinas
After less than two hours of deliberation, Thomas L. Coleman, 55, a highway engineer and part-time sheriff, was found innocent of a manslaughter charge on a plea of self-defense. The defense claimed that young Daniels was armed with a knife when Coleman shot him with a .12 gauge automatic shot-run last August 20. Prosecution witnesses denied that Daniels was armed...
...Passed, by a 63-to-14 vote in the Senate, a slightly watered down $320 million road beautification bill to provide for junkyard cleanups and billboard controls along federally financed highways. As originally reported out of the Senate Public Works Committee, the measure would have withdrawn all federal highway funds from any state that did not effectively curtail unsightly billboard advertising within 660 feet of federal-aid highways. The bill's punitive powers were cut by an amendment providing for withdrawal of only 10% of federal road money in such cases...