Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab extremists were threatening harm to their women and children. Those threats so far were just that, but elsewhere a total of 20 Arabs was killed during the week, seven of them children whose school bus blew up when it rolled over an anti-tank mine planted in the road. Several British soldiers were among nearly 100 persons who have been killed so far this year in Aden...
Harvard went to court last January to compel the University Road Real Estate Trust to honor a 1956 option agreement to sell the building, located at 122 Mt. Auburn St. Earlier this week, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Edward F. Hennessy told the lawyers for both parties that he would shortly issue a ruling in favour of Harvard...
...economic cooperation among the non-Communist Asian Pacific nations and normalized relations with Japan-a move that has proved worth $800 million in grants and credits. Park's five-year development plan has sharply expanded foreign and domestic investment and, for the first time, started Korea on the road toward self-sufficiency. In the past five years, more than 3,600 new factories have been built, and another 18,000 small and medium-sized businesses have been set up, cutting unemployment from more than 11% in 1962 to a current...
...traveling companion were asked to take another taxi that already contained two men, but refused to share the ride. Friends figure that this may have been an abortive kidnap attempt. On the day that Thompson disappeared, a caravan of five cars was seen going up the usually traffic-free road to the highlands and coming down three hours later- right after Jim Thompson vanished...
...traffic volume and capital" has prevented it from modernizing. By absorbing the line into the healthier North Western, that situation should be cured. The resulting line, retaining the name Chicago and North Western, would have 12,000 miles of track in eleven states. The merger would enable the two roads to discontinue several freight trains each and consolidate facilities at 28 points, including Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Des Moines. Not content with that, the North Western continues to hanker for control of both the Milwaukee Road and the Rock Island, just two of the sundry railroad-merger proposals still...