Word: superhighway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the old Havana-Guanabacoa road was converted into a superhighway, a venerable travelers' shrine known as the Virgin of the Road was destroyed. The Virgin's friends and neighbors, fearful of Cuba's frantic traffic, protested, and the government commissioned Sculptress Rita Longa (seated, right) to make a new Virgin. Still to be consecrated, the new Virgin has been a quick success. Even at night Cubans toss money in the pool, stuff currency in her hand. The money, collected regularly ($112.28 last week), is given to an orphanage...
Through Berlin's U.S. sector, along the superhighway toward Potsdam, a limousine zoomed along at 65 m.p.h. (the U.S.-enforced speed limit is 20 m.p.h.). "It was going to beat hell," remarked an American MP later. A U.S. traffic patrol, consisting of a jeep and an armored car, promptly raced in pursuit. After a two-mile chase they overtook the limousine, leveled machine guns at it. Frantically the Russian driver pointed to the back seat and screamed: "Marshal! Marshal...
Strange things were done. The state, hot for progress of a sort, phlegmatically prepared to tear down 21 apartments, a hotel, 382 houses to make way for a new superhighway. There were rumors: Los Angeles heard that hundreds of Japs were about to descend from Tule Lake, seeking bed & board. Then 1,500 members of the Los Angeles Apartment House Association held a meeting to abuse the OPA, ended up by deciding to take no less than 21,474 apartments off the rental market...
Larks sang in the spring sky and the shaky-legged lambs frisked in the German fields. In some of the smashed beer houses were broken pianos, drums, brass horns. But the most fascinating thing in sight was the rolling ribbon of the Autobahn -the four-lane superhighway connecting Frankfurt am Main and the Ruhr...
Centering upon original research work of the 100-odd students in the School of Design, the project will concern the various aspects of an ultra-modern town development known as a "string-town," so called because it would be constructed in an elongated fashion along an interurban superhighway...