Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Running across the 28,000-acre plant and depot grounds are 195 miles of 16-foot, blacktop asphalt road, already cracking. Cost: $29,000 a mile; the average concrete road would have cost under $25,000. Two parallel roads lie only 75 feet apart, one on the Milan project, the other on the Wolf Creek project. Snorted Senator Truman: $149,000 wasted...
...back of a truck in Belgium a bale of posters fell to the road. Passersby, picking them up, found they contained, in parallel German and English text, regulations for Occupied Britain. But the truck from which the posters fell was headed away from the invasion coast into paper-starved Germany...
...vulnerable eastern hump of Brazil, which sticks out sore-thumb-like on all maps of U.S. grand strategy, is for one U.S. corporation already an active fighting front. The corporation: Pan American Airways. On the hump, Pan Am lines parallel Axis airlines; and there, at U.S. Government behest, Pan Am last week was busy improving or building twelve air bases, ringing the hump...
...looks now, the driving force of the movement will be at Harvard. The first forum will be set up here and its model will be followed in parallel organizations at other colleges. Also the magazine, which will publish articles from all over the country, will have its office in Cambridge...
France awoke too late to these perils, says Benoit. "Her people were apathetic and unconcerned, her workers jealous of their pocketbooks and not jealous enough of their fatherland," and he goes on to draw a parallel between the Vichy consuls in the United States and the German pavilion at the Paris Exposition. "Vichy is not France," maintains Benoit, "Vichy is Berlin, therefore Germany...