Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overall, in 22 states, a network of toll roads built or planned is now webbing fast across a vast segment of the U.S. from Northeast to Southwest. In 1950 all U.S. toll roads together ran to only 439 miles. The total has since expanded enormously; as of this week 1,712 miles are in use, 1,527 under construction and 5,622 more planned. Total cost: $10.7 billion, repayable by road users directly at no cost to taxpayers generally. By 1965, highway experts predict, motorists will be riding nonstop-for a price-on turnpikes from Chicago to Miami, from...
Randall condemned "American business [which] cannot operate without a high protective tariff. You cannot benefit one segment of the American people by a high protective tariff unless some other segment pays for it. You can restrict the flow of Venezuelan oil to the United States. When you do that, you make all of New England take a higher power cost because its fuel will cost more. The ultimate payoff is with the consumer...
FLOOD DAMAGE in the Northeast from hurricanes Connie and Diane will hit $157 million, according to the Business & Defense Services Administration, instead of the original $2 billion estimate, and the actual cost to businessmen will be a lot less. Reason: unpublicized gestures by a large segment of U.S. business to replace or repair flood-ruined merchandise free of charge or at big discounts. Among the firms helping out: drugmakers Eli Lilly, McKesson & Robbins, Bristol-Myers, Johnson & Johnson, food processors Birds-Eye, National Biscuit Co., Pepsi-Cola, cameramakers Eastman Kodak, Agfa, Bell & Howell...
...fights between competing drummers. For a while there was comparative quiet, but with the war and the arrival of U.S. forces came a deluge of 50-gallon oil drums, and some inventive fellows discovered a way to make them into musical instruments. They divided the heads into pie-shaped segments, peened them until each segment gave on': a separate musical note when struck with padded sticks. For "bass booms" the drums were left full length, for baritones they were, chopped in half, for the "tenor pans" they were sliced thin. Then half a dozen Trinidadians foregathered, added maracas...
...Alvin D. Chandler ran into another squall in his stormy four-year cruise as president of the College of William and Mary. Having alienated most of the students by rigid rules against beer, unchaperoned parties and uncensored student publications, he and the governing Board of Visitors alienated a powerful segment of the faculty by demands for absolute loyalty and a tendency to command the campus as if it were a battleship. Last week one of William and Mary's top men and onetime acting president, Philosopher James W. Miller, resigned because "under its present auspices, there is little hope...