Word: roadway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such model, made by students at Syracuse University, showed an Army reception center as it would normally appear from a height of 5,000 ft., with rectangular lines and shadows, and a white circular roadway clearly identifying its function. In the camouflaged version the central mess hall and some of the barracks have been mottled with paint, the central road circle has been painted out, and straight lines and shadows have been broken up with the aid of sloping fabric screens, transplanted trees and painted fiber board. A dummy silo completes the illusion of ah innocent-looking three-building farm...
...told how construction crews waded ashore from ships off Labrador, cut down trees and built rafts to float their first equipment ashore, then built a corduroy causeway to the ships, then hauled enough tools and material ashore to build a dock. Afterward, in 20-ft. snows, they cleared a roadway 100 miles inland, built an airport complete with runways, hangars, living quarters...
...Antonio, Tex., demolition experts previewed the program, found it good. Potential "students" and newshawks, advised to "look up and dodge" rather than seek cover, watched a picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from an old World War I tank. A hand grenade and booby trap were...
...Narrow Roadway. The mere fact that Japan had asked for a meeting was a diplomatic victory for the U.S. Where solemn words and warnings had failed to halt Japanese aggression in the Orient, bold acts had prevailed. By strangling Japan's trade with the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt had suggested to the Japanese that it might be a good idea to pause and talk things over...
...Reporter Coatsworth's car smashed into the curb. The reporter got out, was pitched forward on his face. Both men, seasick, tried to get up. As they crawled forward, they were knocked down again. Concrete popped like popcorn; large chunks broke loose, whistled through the air. As the roadway buckled over on its side, Student Brown looked down at the water 190 feet below: "I thought I was a goner...