Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curve in the Road. Then, a few years after The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky began to change his whole style. What had been warm and violent became-from about 1920 on-cold, classical, clear, calculated. Why? Today Stravinsky shrugs: "Who knows what causes change? You never see the change when you are driving along. A little curve in the road and suddenly you are proceeding east, another and you head north. One is unaware...
...Open Road. "Reverend Mike" has set the maximum enrollment at 30-"a busload." Whenever masters and boys feel the itch, the school piles into its bus, with one of the masters at the wheel, and goes singing on its way. Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...
...last week the San Luis Obispo road -the valley's only outlet-was jammed with trucks carrying oil to the coast, and pipe and rigs back into Cuyama. Each day brought in new hopefuls who pitched tents, built rickety lean-tos, rigged up their equipment with floodlights for around-the-clock drilling. To carry away the oil, Richfield was laying a 35-mile, 6-inch pipeline to connect with a bigger one that ran to Los Angeles County. Richfield has given the contractor ten days to complete the line...
...Haven, Whittemore will have a road to run on which steam is already up. Palmer did a good job guiding the road through a twelve-year bankruptcy, got it back on its feet with its indebtedness greatly reduced. He also bought most of the 250 diesel engines and 180 streamlined postwar passenger cars (most of them with reclining seats and separate smoking compartments), which make the New Haven one of the most up-to-date roads in the East. A short-haul road with an eye on the passenger business, it ranks tops with New York commuters...
Whittemore will carry the modernization north to New England. One of the issues in the fight for control of the New Haven was Palmer's intention to abandon the money-losing (over $3,000,000 last year) Old Colony branch road from Boston to Cape Cod. Whittemore hopes not only to retain the Old Colony line, but to make it pay by bringing its equipment up to the road's new standards...