Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Bank of tiny (pop. 150) Virgil is a two-story, stucco-covered brick building on a nameless blacktop road. It has 500 depositors, $707,000 in deposits and assets, and five directors, most of them retired farmers, all but one, members of the same family. It is the sort of crib that "Pretty Boy" Floyd could crack while sucking tomato seeds from between his teeth...
Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls...
...took four days for trucks to bring help over the narrow road which is Sondondo's only link to the world outside. Government agents took one look, decided that it was useless to try to recover the dead. Instead, they suggested that the Sondondinos leave their ancient home for a safer place. Scoffed one old survivor: "These men from the coast make me laugh. They talk as if this were our first ayapana. We have had them since God knows when...
...sentry tower above the historic Pa (native Maori fortress) near Auckland, New Zealand, a single Maori warrior stood waiting. When the government car rounded a bend in the road, he called the traditional chant of welcome and challenge. A tall, bronzed man stepped from the car and picked up the ax that the sentry tossed toward him. At this gesture (the time-honored sign to show that a visit is peaceful) hundreds of Maoris in native costume sang their ancient haka, song of welcome...
...week's end, white-haired Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, dug up a word for what was going on. The gaunt old (65) ex-professor, who had spent 23 years with the Brookings Institution, has long been a middle-of-the-road economist who sometimes seems to be trimming his square-rigged economic sails to the Administration's wind. He neatly dodged predicting either inflation or deflation. What the country was going through, he said, was "disinflation" (a five-dollar word for burp). It was quite a different thing from deflation...