Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State personages and their wives are commonly accorded Courtesy of the Road by local officials. Would Critic Eldridge have this U. S. custom abolished...
...drove them all to International Falls on the Canadian border, started back for home along the public highway after dark. Mrs. Virkula was in the front seat with him, the children asleep in the back. He stopped to light a cigaret, then drove on along the lonely wooded road...
Suddenly two figures leaped up before him in the middle of the road. One held a sign: STOP! U. S. CUSTOMS OFFICERS. Virkula braked his car but had not stopped before a volley of shot tore through the rear windows. The car plunged into a ditch. Virkula was dead, a slug in his neck...
...York. Into a Plattsburg hospital early one morning last week two U. S. customs patrolmen carried a human body, dumped it on the floor, hurried away without giving any information except that they had "found it in the road." The body had been Arthur Gordon, 22, border rumrunner. Great was the mystery as to this shooting. New York authorities started John Doe proceedings. Then from Collector of Customs John C. Tulloch at Ogdensburg came this explanation...
...years of effort by Minor Cooper Keith, organizer of potent United Fruit Co. In 1904 (five years after the formation of United Fruit) Mr. Keith acquired from the Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed on to Guatemala City. In 1912 the railroad...