Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have Venezuela's President Pérez Jiménez riding in his Cadillac limousine, Pennsylvania Bell Telephone President Gillen's picture over the caption "There is more to life than Cadillacs," the change in Huntington Beach, Calif. from shanty town to "Cadillac Lane," and the reference by the reviewer of John P. Marquand's new novel to the "middle-classic double play: Ford to Buick to Cadillac...
...roads, but almost nobody agrees on how to pay for them. While the argument rages, Texas has gone ahead and devised something new: the nation's first privately owned and privately financed modern toll roads. This week the Texas Turnpike Co. will start constructing a 223-mile, four-lane thruway from the Dallas area to Houston, at a cost of $140 million. At the same time the Sam Houston Toll Road Corp. will start building the first leg (Dallas-Waco, 83 miles) of its $140 million. 246-mile Dallas-San Antonio Thruway. The two corporations, franchised as nonprofit public...
...oilmen bought up leases, Huntington Beach turned into a boom town. New restaurants opened up, boarding houses and nearby motels were jammed. New wells came in and spattered the houses with oil. What was once shantytown became known as Cadillac Lane, as householders collected fat royalties from their property and lease bonuses ranging as high...
Muzzle Covers On. From Okinawa, Formosa and Manila, 132 U.S. and 27 Nationalist Chinese ships had converged on the Tachens; Sabre jets of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing patrolled the sea lane that led back to Formosa. From Saigon had come Rear Admiral Lorenzo Sabin. where he had directed the evacuation of 214,000 Vietnamese. "We are going in with our muzzle covers on," said Sabin, "but we are prepared to go into action if we are opposed...
...years. Harry Grice, an ailing 42-year-old electroplater of Birmingham, had tried to take his own life. Each time his wife Catherine dissuaded him. Last week, on his way home from work, death overtook Harry Grice. The neighbors who carried Harry's body home from the nearby lane in which they found it. and the doctor and the policemen who were called in to take charge, all agreed that Harry had been the victim of a heart attack. Nobody thought to put any blame on the innocent-looking bottle of ginger beer that was found in Harry...