Word: roadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eased his pickup truck along a sand-soft logging road one day last week. He sang out a warning to a gang of pulp cutters to take only the jack pine that rangers had paint-striped for cutting, told them to heave dead branches 50 feet back from the roadway, out of cigarette-throw range...
...Lofts. Highway 128 was built to be just a Boston bypass. But in the eight years since it opened, the roadway has lured 17 industrial parks and $137 million worth of new buildings. Into them have moved 227 companies employing 28,000 people...
...morning, as Bill's black Dauphine-Gordini headed towards Fontainebleau, he jammed on the brakes on a deserted stretch of the road and pulled out his pistol. Dominique jumped out of the car as Bill started firing-five shots in all. Hit, Dominique clawed at the tar roadway in her frenzy to crawl away, was still writhing when Bill calmly dumped a can of oil over her and set her on fire. As he started back to Paris and the apartment of his "official mistress," who was to provide him with an alibi, he could see the flames dancing...
Already the roadway has been diverted from the building so that grass may be planted in front of it, to improve the appearance of the dark structure. Construction will begin early in November...
...becoming the Brazilian government's exclusive place of business. For last week's inauguration, 20,000 workmen toiled through the night under strings of temporary lights to make the palace, the chapel and a hotel ready for use. Sewer and water systems were installed; 80 miles of roadway were paved within the federal district, and 500 homes and six apartment blocks were nearly finished. Of the ministries and the thousands of housing units still needed, there was no sign but long lines of foundations...