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...waters, the Phoenicians and Greeks of 30 centuries ago first learned the arts of maritime commerce, and of naval war-including the amphibious landing. Across the golden bridge of the Grecian islands the civilizations of the Valleys of the Nile and Euphrates first advanced to Europe. Across this strategic roadway world conquerors from Babylon to Berchtesgaden have sped to their brief zenith and decay. In their day both Ramses II and Darius dug canals between the Nile and the Red Sea. As the North African sands still drift over the last burned-out tanks of Rommel, the newest Pharaoh...
Time to Retire. In Bingham, Utah, workers were threatened with "some disciplinary action" after they lost control of a 1,800-lb. road-grader tire they were rolling to amuse themselves during lunch hour, saw it careen down a mile-deep copper mine and vanish into a roadway, where it rolled to a town three-quarters of a mile away, bounced 30 ft. in the air, ripped open the second floor of a house...
...quiet afternoon in the South African shanty village of Moroka. Children played in the dusty roadway and mangy dogs snoozed in the warm sun. Women attended to their pots and gossip. Then Tikoloshe turned...
...entire $326 million in one day. Before the market closed that day, the commission's $1,000 tax-exempt 3¼% bonds commanded a $25 premium. But the project was still plagued by delays, and so many obstructive lawsuits that one attorney wryly suggested paving the roadway with law! books and naming it Blackstone Boulevard. No concrete was poured at all for the first four years. Then in late 1953, an army of roadmaking machines began to roll on two ten-hour daily shifts, and the turnpike shot across Ohio at a rate sometimes exceeding one mile...
...Game. In Salt Lake City. Brigham Krause complained to the embarrassed County Commission that the 700-by-50-ft. piece of tax-delinquent property he had bought for $100 turned out to be a section of a county roadway...