Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lire and gold coins and fled for the hills. From then on, Kocero virtually ruled what few roads there were in the southeast. In a single day, he and his band of five or six men looted 200 people by halting one bus after another on a main highway, made off with nearly $20,000. As a sideline, he got fat fees for guiding smugglers of opium, cattle, coffee, silks and jewelry across the Turkish-Syrian border...
Finally, in a mysterious incident on a north Georgia highway, Lemuel...
...thing to hold such meaningful protests as restaurant sit-ins, challenging laws that may never be tested in court until they are violated. It is quite another thing to hold indiscriminate demonstrations, such as highway stall-ins, that merely protest grievances in general. Such actions are simply guerrilla warfare. Alabama's Governor Wallace, when he "stood in the school-house door" at Tuscaloosa, was acting not only in defiance of a court order, but after the validity of desegregation orders had already been thoroughly established in the courts...
...According to highway experts," Bernays added, "the increased traffic produced by the underpasses, wider than the drive, will necessitate the drive's being widened within a year into an expressway...
...billion in assets, including its own 17,000-mile railroad network, a steamship company, an airline and even a chain of hotels to serve them. But until recently, it got a very small profit return on these vast assets; it allowed its operations to become antiquated, competing air and highway traffic to steal away earnings and its ships, hotels and airline to slip into the red. Even worse, it sold off or leased much of its 25 million acres of valuable oil, gas and mineral and timber land, largely because it was reluctant to compete directly with some...