Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Nov. 8 analysis of William Vogt's book Road to Survival is probably the most inaccurate and misleading article that TIME has ever published. The implication that "real scientists" do not agree with Vogt's main thesis is far from the truth. It is true that Vogt has exaggerated the dangers of soil erosion, but he has underestimated the difficulties in the adequate control of population growth and the control of "moral erosion...
...Toombs County, adjoining Montgomery County, where a Negro was shot to death last September for daring to vote in the Democratic primary (TIME, Sept. 20), Mallard was clearly living dangerously. On the warm Saturday night of November 20, driving along a country road with his wife, Amy, their son and two young Negroes, Robert Mallard was killed. A single shot pierced the windshield and slammed into his chest. Amy, a schoolteacher, said that white-robed men had blocked the road with cars and shot Mallard...
...friend on Queen Anne Hill, drove off toward home -and vanished completely. Last month, harbor patrolmen found them in Hennessy's automobile at the bottom of the Lake. Washington Ship Canal. One day last week, Gladys Hennessy, the undertaker's widow, was driving along an icy road with a woman friend and her five-year-old son Patrick (who was wearing a Saint Christopher medal taken from his father's body). The automobile skidded and plunged into the Wenatchee River. All inside were drowned...
Athenians were regaling each other with the tale of an encounter between a U.S. Army engineer and a Greek peasant. The engineer was taking a sight through his transit along a rural road when the countryman rode up on a donkey. The Greek watched in mystified silence for some time, and then asked the American what he was up to. "Measuring the shortest distance between this point and that village over there," explained the American. "Well," the peasant muttered half to himself, "that certainly seems a complicated way to do such a simple job." "Is that so?" asked the engineer...
...Japanese captured Nanking, Chiang moved the government upriver to Hankow and fought on; they captured Hankow, he moved to Chungking. When the ports were gone, Chinese coolies carved a Burma Road across the mountains. When the Japanese cut off Burma, after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. flew amounting load of war supplies "over the Hump...