Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge City Council had visited Washington earlier this week to urge the bureau to study both the need and possible locations for the highway...
...AUTO SAFETY. Reduction of "carnage on our highways," through a $700 million, six-year program to develop mandatory standards of "safety performance" for highway vehicles. Said an Administration aide: "We contemplate licensing, inspection and engineering, research and development, "traffic control and accident prevention...
...disarray of his black adversaries must have delighted Ian Smith. Each day he had more reasons for joy: heavily laden tanker trucks have been roaring north along the highway from South Africa, bringing in some 40,000 gallons of gasoline daily, nearly one-third of Rhodesia's rationed needs. The petroleum is being sold to Rhodesia by independent South African oil companies, which have been emboldened by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's decision not to abide by Britain's oil embargo. The trucks were seized by Smith from British Petroleum and Shell subsidiaries in Rhodesia, repainted grey...
...also engenders pretensions as well as problems. Impoverished Dahomey boasts a $6,000,000 Presidential residence that is larger than Buckingham Palace. Mauritania has a Directorate of Forests and Waters, though it has no forests and precious little water. Upper Volta refers to its single quarter-mile of dual highway as the Champs Elys...
...ETHIOPIA The planning, administration, and implementation of the Imperial Highway Authority's program to develop a professional highway department in Ethiopia has been hampered greatly by inadequately trained personnel. Volunteers will aim to improve job skills to Ethiopians in the program...