Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House, offers $270 million over three years-$140 million less than a Senate version-as an incentive to states to tighten safety codes and to improve driver training, testing and inspection of vehicles and highway design. The House also decreed that states that do not set up an approved road-safety program by Jan. 1, 1968 will forfeit 10% of the federal aid that they receive for highways under other laws...
...gunned his engine in a desperate attempt to run down the killers; a bullet through the windshield stopped him dead. Before the Vanguard roared off, said a witness, one black-bearded hood coolly "got into the police car and drove over one of the men on the road...
...eleven miles from Brussels, but it has an unfortunate name for a military bastion-Waterloo. Should the general accept Chièvres, farmers of the region will be no happier than he. One native, whose land stands to be plowed under, muttered: "I used to throw nails on the road during the war to give the Nazis flat tires. If Chape comes I'll throw some more...
Under the highballing presidency of Leslie G. Taylor, Denver-based DC International, one of the biggest trucking firms in the U.S., has expanded rapidly, since 1963 has bought a major European road hauler and three in the U.S., and at the same time has consistently reported profit increases. So why is Taylor, who is DC's largest single stock holder (200,000 shares worth $3,400,000), now out of a job? Answer: his board of directors decided that Taylor was doing too much too fast-and was not consulting them enough...
...goes whooshing across the U.S. in search of his true identity. Like Bloom in darkling Dublin, like Mitty in the mazes of Waterbury, Conn., he dissolves into fantasies elaborated to suggest simultaneously a madness in himself and in America. Headlines, brand names, movie stars, sports heroes, billboards, road signs, dirty jokes-they whirl in his head like garbage in a Disposall. And what's there when Faust flips the chopper off? An almighty typographical mux that is often confusing but amusing...