Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the growing numbers of automobiles, trucks and buses, now up to 65 million. The new roads will ease present congestion, be able to accommodate the nearly 90 million vehicles that are expected to speed over U.S. roads by 1972. With fewer curves, no crossroads and a wide center strip, the super system is expected to save 3,500 lives annually, reduce accident costs by $725 million, save commercial operators another $825 million by cutting delay, fuel waste, tire and brake wear. It will be designed for safe speeds of up to 70 m.p.h. (today's average highway speeds...
...Million Bet. Union strip-mines the oil-bearing rock in high butte country, then transports it by conveyor belt to the new retort. Crushed to small pieces, the rock is rammed upward in the six-story-high retort by a huge piston, meeting a stream of fire-fed gases that distill out shale oil at a rate of about 30 gal. per ton of rock. The raw oil is carried by truck to Union's Brea, Calif, plant...
...mile, $239 million Massachu-setts Turnpike was opened several weeks ago, after two years of construction. The superhighway has two roads of three lanes each, separated by an 18-foot center strip. It ends at the New York State line, connecting with N.Y. Route 22, for Albany at West Stockbridge...
...earth where the girl lay was torn up. The Austrians saw immediately that the girl had been injured by a mine, and concluded that there were probably other mines in the strip. At the edge of the woods beyond the frontier six Hungarian soldiers stood watching the girl. Neither the Austrians nor the Hungarian soldiers made a move to help her. Some of the Austrians drifted off, ashamed of their helplessness in the face not only of the mines but of the fact that the girl was beyond the fence in Hungarian territory...
Wild Oats. In Epworth. England, Farmers Jack and Les Keall completed seeding a half-acre strip before realizing that the land belonged to a neighbor...