Word: right-of-way
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...Ernst Krenek's atonal Santa Fe Time Table was in itself enough to put a tremolo in the larynx of most singers. A long, desert-dry work, its lyrics is a list of all the station names between Albuquerque and Los Angeles* The chorus rattled down the right-of-way like a highballing freight, then proceeded to an even more formidable test: Schonberg's late works, Dreimal...
...proposal is intended to permit future widening of the street from Michael A. Sullivan Square to Eliot Square. The lines would not affect any present buildings, but would prevent future construction within a 65-foot right-of-way along the street...
...late father, "Big Bill," as a sort of family property, to explain by next November why he refused to answer McClellan Committee questions. Under indictment in Indiana for conspiracy to bribe a state highway official, Hutcheson and other Carpenter officials turned a fast 200% profit by buying right-of-way land for $40,000, selling it to the state a few weeks later for $120,000. Also, in memory of his father, Hutcheson paid a hack writer $310,000 from union funds to write an official biography of Big Bill...
...dock and airstrip building near Anchorage, road surveys and right-of-way proceedings along the Alaska Railroad, and talk of a $58 million contract awarded the Drake-Puget Sound Construction Co. for a job near Mount McKinley National Park add up to one thing to Alaskans: preparation for a string of U.S. ballistic missile bases. Sited along the Alaska Railroad, such bases could launch intermediate-range missiles that would reach Russian bases on the eastern tip of Siberia, intercontinental missiles that could arc across the Pole to Moscow and beyond. The U.S. bases would have the advantage of North America...
...woodpile of corruption in Indiana's road-building program. The story, as Gore developed it in Washington hearings last week: Carpenters' Treasurer Frank Chapman, 52, borrowed $20,000 from an Indianapolis bank on his own and Hutcheson's signatures, bought up nine pieces of Indiana right-of-way land for $22,500, sold it all within 30 days to the state for $101,000. Furthermore, Brotherhood Vice President O. William Blaier, 69, bought 33 acres of land for $16,500, sold 1½ acres to the state for $19,000. In Frank Chapman's bank account...