Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Locks, where Mayor Russel Nichols, a Dewey rooter, had arranged a turnout for his man. But Dewey arrived to find that Harold Stassen had boldly stolen his meeting. Stassen was busily autographing campaign leaflets. Newsreel cameramen, hoping for shots of the candidates together, had backed a truck across the road to make sure that Dewey would stop...
...Arab Legion assemble. During the day, fierce-faced, khaki-clad soldiers of Transjordan's ist Mechanized Regiment had swirled and stamped, with arms interlocked, in traditional Arab war dances. With the first glimmer of dawn on the day after Israel was born, they began to wind down the road to the Jordan Valley in tanks, armored cars and trucks, slapping at mosquitoes in the heat. They crossed the river by Allenby Bridge, moved toward Jericho. Some Legionnaires were in Palestine already. Their first operations, confined to the Arab allotment in Palestine under the U.N. partition plan, were to occupy...
Still other Arab contingents were on the move. The Legion destroyed the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion and four others. In southern Palestine, Egyptian troops crossed the border into the sandy wastes of the Negeb Desert to seize Jewish settlements on the road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war.* But these Arab moves were, for the moment, token attacks with token forces. The important question...
...intricate, crowded feet (scaled roughly at a foot to a mile), the scroll follows a meandering road downriver, from dawn to dusk. In its 33-mile course, the road enters the gates of the high-walled Sung capital Pien-liang, and becomes a city street lined with pawnshops, paint shops, butcher shops, restaurants, lute shops, wineshops, needle shops, antique shops...
...months past, Dumaine & friends had quietly spent an estimated $5,000,000 buying up the voting preferred stock which controls the long-bankrupt New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road Co., recently reorganized. When the management of the New Haven finally began to suspect what was happening, it was too late. Last week Dumaine told them the score: his group controlled more than half the New Haven's 391,000 active shares of preferred. An additional 62,090 shares are held in trust and there is question whether they can be voted. Thus, Dumaine thought he had enough...