Word: right-of-way
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Many a person living along the New York Central's right-of-way between New York and Chicago received a surprise last week as the Twentieth Century Limited rushed by. Coupled on at the rear were two slate-gray, streamlined cars, one of them relatively normal in appearance, the other definitely strange, with little square windows on two levels like the gunports of a frigate. One car was named Progress, the other Advance...
...abutting property of direct access to the highway; 4) acceleration and deceleration lanes for fast and slow traffic. All four forms of friction are largely cured by these four elements. But few roads exemplify them all. One example is the Worcester (Mass.) Turnpike. It used an abandoned trolley right-of-way. Even so, the elaborate structure cost $239,000 per mile. This tremendous expense, dwarfing ordinary figures, is an effective hitch in the program. It will take years to create the 12,000 miles of such superhighways which are vitally needed today...
...Cheered announcements that 4,500 miles of main British motor roads are being "nationalized" by dynamic Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. Today British motor cars do not stop dead, as they are supposed to do, before every "Belisha Beacon" at which pedestrians theoretically have the right-of-way to cross (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), but Mr. Hore-Belisha is capitalizing on the publicity his beacons won to carry out vital reforms. Shocking is the fact that two-thirds of Britain's boasted "Great North Road" from London to Scotland is too narrow for two lanes of traffic. Hundreds...
...fancy jiggle on news that the railroad had struck oil in the Rodessa field. Excitement, however, petered out quickley. It was learned that the drilling had been done not by the railroad. K. C. S. happened to own outright a quarter-mile strip of property along its right-of-way near from the well drilled there will be inconsiderable this year, may amount to $100,000 next...
...namesake who died last July reverted to the older form of the family name: Huddleston. *With no money to repair the hurricane damage along its viaduct right-of-way, Florida East Coast has not run a train to Key West since Labor...