Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aviv, who were led to believe that the Negev construction was for a textile plant. About a month ago U.S. intelligence sources got pictures of the plant-and it was suddenly clear what Israel was up to (the installation was also distantly visible from the Beersheba-Sodom highway). The State Department and the CIA called a special session of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy; Secretary of State Christian Herter summoned Israeli Ambassador Avraham Harman to the State Department for some stern questioning. Last week Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion reluctantly admitted that Israel was indeed building...
...1940s Jenkins was in a position to swallow an entire $5,000,000 issue of bonds by the Mexican government's holding corporation, Nacíonal Financiera, without apparent strain. When a projected four-lane highway from Mexico City to Querétaro lagged for lack of funds, Jenkins lent the contractors $25.6 million to finish the job, while at the same time offering the government $80 million to help finance a new superhighway from Puebla to Mexico City. Among his reported holdings today: the Bank of Commerce, textile mills, cement plants, an automobile assembly plant, finance companies...
...Reports (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "The Great Holiday Massacre," about a holiday weekend's highway accidents...
...road paver, bunkhouse and machine shop, which rolls under its own power to a job. In a matter of hours it can be set up and with one man operating it, produce 250 tons of asphalt an hour. It will finish in 70 days a 65-mile stretch of highway which was scheduled to take 150 days. Milwaukee's Chain Belt Co. sells a paving machine that squeezes concrete out like toothpaste onto a roadbed without laying any pre-built forms. It slides its own form along with it eliminates twelve to 15 men. General Motors Euclid division developed...
...Methods. State highway departments have also lowered costs by accepting new building methods. Texas gives a contractor a choice of materials to use on a job so that he can pick the cheapest, e.g. steel or prestressed concrete on bridges. Michigan and other states save time and money by making their surveys by aerial photography. Oklahoma has found that building roads across open country rather than following old high ways has cut land-buying costs...