Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner many of our scientists like Professor Bridgman acknowledge the implications of the completely materialistic interpretation of man, the sooner will our moral state be on the road to improvement . . . For those of us who are not wrapped up in an intensive study of one aspect of the universe, based on a particular philosophical conception, the idea doesn't seem to make such a workable living standard...
...Metcalfe was a "candidate" (meaning, for the graveyard) almost as soon as he pinned on a policeman's badge in 1946. It took him just two years and eight months to get there. Last week, when his kinfolk took his bullet-riddled body up the dusty Poor Fork road and buried it in a little family cemetery, many a hillman thought Ambrose had actually outlived his life expectancy...
...Surpassing Texas Oilman Edgar B. Davis, who, some 20 years ago, poured $1,500,000 into a dismal play called The Ladder (789 performances) until he ended up giving all tickets away. Not comparable are Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances) and Tobacco Road (3,182 performances); both defied the critics with their lengthy runs-but eager customers put up the money...
...Crow policy of all the Armed Forces, plus the fact that many Negroes are, through no fault of their own, far below the educational standards for all but the most menial jobs, caused thousands of perfectly capable men to be lumped into miserable duties as stevedores and road-builders...
Last week ICC Examiner J.A. Prichard tartly recommended that the application be turned down. He said the road should be a profitable operation, but was actually trying to lose money. At Morenci, it had allowed its tracks to be torn up and given its right of way to the New York Central. (The owner, a Columbus scrap-metal firm, said it had been ordered out for want of a franchise.) The owners' real object, said the examiner, was to go out of business so that its trackage, bought for only $33,-450 in 1933, could be sold as scrap...