Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey last week formally opened the first section of what will be the longest, best-planned and most remarkable toll road in America, the New York Thruway. At a banquet in Rochester, Dewey pressed a button that opened turnpike exchanges on the 115-mile stretch from West Henrietta, near Rochester, to Lowell, near Utica. For New York, the Thruway may be the most important achievement of its kind since De Witt Clinton in 1825 opened the Erie Canal and gave the state the jump on its neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great...
...three straight years the club started the race like champions. For three straight years they folded in the stretch. This year they did not even start well. Ten games into April, they had won only four. The man who prodded them out of the doldrums was Al Rosen. The American League Most Valuable Player of last year, Al Rosen, third baseman, made a quick switch to first, played like a practiced veteran, and opened a spot in the lineup for a flashy, hard-hitting rookie named Rudy Regalado. The Indians started after the lead. Now that Regalado is slumping...
...leading exponent of dada's successor, surrealism. When the Germans came in 1940, he took off for Hollywood, where he painted, photographed and lectured. In 1951 he went back to Paris and the Latin Quarter. There he now works, but never more than two hours at a stretch. "I like to work at white heat for short periods," he explains. Painting is his main love, but photography brings in more money. Like a true dadaist, Ray scorns credit for the unquestionable skill of his photographs: "Many photographers consider themselves as artists. In my opinion, 99% credit should...
Under 1945 legislation, Congress had authorized the Army engineers to develop power, navigation, and flood-control features on a 100-mile stretch of the Coosa River between Montgomery and the Georgia state line. The money was never appropriated, and the Alabama Power Co., which already serves 520,718 people in the area, drafted its own plan. It offered to build five new dams (see map) along the Coosa, with flood-control features and provisions for future navigation improvement. Cost of the project: about $100 million for an additional 360,000 kilowatts of power...
...square-headed Maryk surprisingly well. Fred MacMurray looks a little too dumb and stiff to be the fast-talking Keefer, but Jose Ferrer, so long as he is not required to do anything more than leer, is suitably aggressive as Barney Greenwald. E. G. Marshall has a fine stretch as the trial judge advocate...