Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visiting Russian artists and scientists, and their American friends, wanted to take their Manhattan "peace" show on road tour. They had a cross-country junket all worked out, and a fine crowd-teasing routine: a little lulling piano music by their star performer, Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, accompanied by stirring oratory to prove that it was the U.S. and not Russia, which was the real threat to peace...
Last week the pitted, single-lane oi. road to Pocatello bustled with more traffic than Arco had seen for years. Speculators from as far away as Boise bid for lots that had long lain unsold at $10. "We don't want to gouge anyone," protested Realtor Ora Jones. But a lot opposite the Dee, which is the town's only hotel, jumped from $2,000 to $18,000. Said one Pocatellan: "The jackrabbits up there have 'For Sale' signs over their holes...
...Open Road. One day, consumed with the U.S. passion for setting records, he decided to hit the road and crack at least one safe in every state. Up to then he had worked in 15 states all told. "I used to be a great one for two and three and four a night," boasted Parry. "One night I made them 205 miles apart." He made as little as 55? and as much as $26,000 in a haul. Having widened his field, he was in New Hampshire with only Vermont to go when he decided to pass up Vermont...
...follow its progress across the Atlantic, and wait for it to dock. If we heard it was at Liverpool, some of us went out to meet the trucks on the way from the docks. We begged the drivers not to stop even for a meal on the road, but to rush the black to the factory. It was terrible, desperate...
...ROAD BETWEEN (463 pp.)-James 7. Parrel I-Vanguard...