Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lead story of your May 2 issue, summarizing the mood of the people and the call of the open road, TIME said...
Favorite Morsels. Just about everyone was on his side. These included the President's own Council of Economic Advisers and industry's middle-of-the-road Committee for Economic Development, who were agreed that it was no time to raise taxes. The Democrats' own conservative wing, led by Virginia's penny-pinching Senator Harry Byrd, welcomed the warning of New Dealer Douglas...
These conditions are not isolated; the Washington conference brought out a lot more of them. And it deserved much more than a cold shoulder from the government. The experts talked about new books like William Vogt's "Road to Survival" and Fair-field Osborn's "Our Plundered Planet," which describe the squeeze population growth is putting on our food supply. They discussed synthesizing food from chemicals, flood control, and atomic power sources, and large-scale projects such as the proposed Columbia Valley Authority. They worked on crosion. But most of all they worried about what one speaker called...
...coyote's cry at night is the common denominator of Southwest experience. It is one of the things that adults remember of a ranch house childhood; when heard again in age it summons up the whole complex of dry weather, sun-baked corrals, rock ranch houses, Mexicans, road runners, cattle, rattlesnakes, water tanks, windmills and lonely country. Says Dobie: it is an integral part of the life of the Southwest, which a New Mexico cowboy called the "land that seemed to be grieving over something-a kind of sadness, loneliness in a deathly quiet . . . It produced a heartache...
...against pure bad, nor one of choosing exactly what kind of government we would like to aid. The issue was which of two sides to help. In China, the choice was between the National Government and the Communists. The CRIMSON implicitly chose a third--the nice middle-of-the-road liberals who, unfortunately, are unable to repeal the law of polarization, and therefore find it easier to exist in the minds of incipient journalists than in the land of China. W. D. Mueller...