Word: right-of-way
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Biggest Inch. The Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co. acquired the complete right-of-way for its projected 1,030-mile pipeline from the Abqaiq field in Saudi Arabia through Trans-Jordan, Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean port of Sidon (TIME, March 24). When completed by 1949, the 30-to-31-inch line - world's biggest - will eliminate the present 3,650-mile tanker haul from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Trans-Arabian, affiliate of the Arabian-American Oil Co., will spend $125 million on construction, expects that the line will initially carry some 300,000 barrels...
Twice daily I ride a cummuters' train through 11-odd miles of back yards of the Boston suburbs and while I'm not exactly a chronic clothesline peeping tom, one cannot help but note the predominant scenery along the Boston and Maine right-of-way. It can be presumed, I think, that the countless laundries hung out to dry in the numberless back yards of the area represent a cross-section of American family washes. And laundries haven't changed much in recent years, except on the feminine side...
...before he left the territory, Cap Krug announced the release of 18 million acres of Government land, much of it freed by narrowing the five-mile right-of-way along the Alaska Highway to 300 feet. He also surprised many an old settler by advocating statehood (Alaskans will vote on the question on Oct. 8) and the construction of a railroad through Canada to the "outside...
...meeting of key officers was held before every movement of the President over our lines, and approximately 20 key supervisors were assigned to various key locations in case of any difficulties. Specially selected coal was used; supervisors, master carpenters, bridge inspectors, track foremen and trackwalkers covered the entire right-of-way to examine all bridges and all track conditions; highway crossings which normally were unprotected at night were given special protection to guard against automobiles striking the train...
Conscience. In Mobile, Ala., the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad received a money order for $3 from a Michigan man who "wanted to pay for some rocks which I took from your right-of-way 35 years ago for my slingshot...