Word: superhighways
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...years. Many of the new highways now planned or building will be self-liquidating toll roads, like the successful Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes. Massachusetts, for example, will start one such $200 million cross-state toll highway by the end of this year; Kansas is considering a new superhighway from Kansas City to Wichita; Ohio is just now launching a $326 million east-west toll road to link up with the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
After a fatiguing struggle the indomitable professor gained the superhighway. Here he found he could move faster by walking in the ruts left by the few automobiles which had got through the storm the night before...
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...