Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memory Lane. In Louisville, Irvin Tucker of Madrid (Ky.), arrested for driving 35 m.p.h. in reverse, explained: "I get lost every time I turn a corner, so I decided to back out the way I came...
...half-forgotten tree or turn of road which would mean the real end of their long journey home. War workers bound back to farms and small towns, millions who had been city-bound by gasoline rationing looked out again at the U.S. scene they best remembered-a two-lane highway seen through the windshield of a four-door sedan...
...LANE...
Ambassador Lane had never taken up his duties in earnest; he had spent the ensuing six months at a State Department desk absorbing books and clippings about Poland. Now that his accreditation was merely shifted to the new Government, he was promptly off for bomb-pocked Warsaw...
...Engineers have found that Okinawa can hold three times as many airfields as originally planned, with a paved area equal to 400 miles of two-lane highways. The smallest field will handle twice as much traffic as New York's LaGuardia Field...