Word: highway
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...biggest and newest toll in trouble is the $200 million Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. With a trestle highway broken by two bridges and two tunnels, it covers 17½ miles between Norfolk and Cape Charles, across the stormy mouth of Chesapeake Bay. It is an engineering wonder that cuts the old 1½-hour ferry ride to 25 minutes of scenic driving. But traffic is only a little over half of what the experts predicted. As a result, revenue is not enough to provide the interest on the $200 million in bonds issued by the bridge-tunnel. Interest charges...
...Large as Rhode Island. So far, the fires have devastated more than 650,000 acres of woods and tundra-an area roughly as large as Rhode Island. One fire jumped the Taylor Highway near the Canadian border, making the road impassable at times; others raged along the Alaska Highway. Around Fairbanks, smoke from the Salcha River fire 45 miles away became so dense that visibility was reduced to half a mile. The mining town of Chicken on the Taylor
...Highway was nearly engulfed by the West Fork blaze, which has been burning for more than a month; the flames were stopped just two miles out of town. In north central Alaska, a fire near Bear Mountain on the Koyukuk River was also diverted just short of the Eskimo village of Huslia, but it burned...
...ferry service to the mainland; it had also caused monumental traffic jams in Montreal, where people who normally use commuter trains flocked to work in cars. Most important, the lack of train service had doubled demands for passenger and cargo space on Air Canada and sent businessmen scurrying for highway trucks to keep their material rolling. The total percentage of the nation's goods handled by Canadian railroads has already dropped from 54% to 42% in a decade; inevitably, if businessmen find they like these alternate modes of transportation, the strike bill for the railroads may be even higher...
...thick jungle country 35 miles north of Saigon, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division ran into a hornets' nest last week. Assigned to secure Highway 16 for a supply convoy due to move through, elements of "the Big Red One" wandered unknowingly into a major Viet Cong troop concentration. It took the efforts of three full battalions to blast out the entrenched V.C., and much of the fighting was at close quarters-where accidents can happen...