Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhodes has considerable cause for confidence. Di Salle was elected Governor by a smashing 454,000-vote margin in 1958. But ever since he has been burying himself beneath his own political problems. Determined to upgrade Ohio's highway, education and mental-health programs, Di Salle persuaded a Democratic legislature to raise state taxes by some $310 million during his first two years in office. Corporations, motorists, bar patrons, smokers were among those who got hit hardest where it hurts most. Gas-station attendants would collect from a driver and quip: "That...
...withdrawing his support of the Inner Belt route, Mayor Collins criticized the "chaos" in the state highway program which has prevented the realization of the Inner Belt and other proposed roadways...
...scene by car but did not arrive until after Mere dith had departed. In Barnett's absence, the man blocking the way was Lieut. Governor Paul B. Johnson. He stood in the middle of the roadway at the main entrance of the campus, with about 20 state highway patrolmen backing him up. About 100 ft. behind, a dozen sheriffs from various Mississippi counties stood in a single rank across the roadway. Behind them, forming a third line of defense, three police cars were parked end to end athwart the road...
...before, McShane and Doar tried pleading, urging, arguing, demanding and waving court orders-all in vain.* Now McShane tried using his muscles. Several times he pushed a meaty shoulder against highway patrolmen, trying to force his way past. Ruddy-faced Marshal McShane, 53, is a formidable man. He won the Golden Gloves welterweight championship of New York City back in 1930, and he has since added many pounds of solid flesh. He is also a brave man who won several citations for heroism during his years as a New York cop. But he was outnumbered...
...other depressed areas). More than 230,000 West Virginians now get such provisions. This year the Kennedy Administration has placed $144 million worth of defense contracts in the state, quadrupling the amount awarded by the Eisenhower Administration in its last year. Kennedy has approved a 172-mile highway from the Pennsylvania border to Charleston, W.Va. An increased federal relief program has put some 15,000 men to work at $1 an hour cleaning up the state's littered roadsides and shabby towns. Three thousand displaced miners and other unemployed workers have been retrained and placed in new jobs...