Word: roading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, just four days before the Georgia primary in which the President sought to beat Senator Walter George with Atlanta's District Attorney Lawrence S. Camp, WPA announced a $53,000,000 road-building program for Georgia's rural counties...
...Trade Boards," which the Minister may appoint in any trade which he considers lacks proper regulatory machinery. In 1938, trade boards were applied to the baking and road-making trades. Their job: to help employers and employes in those trades get organized...
Ready for use was a textbook designed to make the automobile as important to school children as the three Rs.* Devoting the first few chapters to the ABCs of the automobile, the book examines the psychology of the driver, summarizes road codes and signals...
When one-fifth of the people of the U. S. want to know where there's a covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that...
...Great's fleet landed 2,263 years ago; bridges the swift Karun River; climbs mountains to reach Dizful, famed city of rats. Thence the line passes northeast through Sultanabad, city of rugs, and Qum, holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot-high mountain pass to reach Bandar Shah, new German-built port near the ancient city of Astarabad and on the semitropical shores of the Caspian Sea. A train will now be able to haul oil from the southwest to the granaries...