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...Inch and Little Big Inch oil pipelines and converted them to gas (TIME, Feb. 24, 1947). Determined to beat his rivals into New England, Symonds formed a subsidiary, Northeastern Gas Transmission Co., and in 1950 filed an application to build a line into New England from the Buffalo terminus of Tennessee's pipeline from Texas...
...free bonds were issued by the Ohio Turnpike Commission to finance construction of one of the biggest single road-building projects in U.S. history: a 241-mile super-highway across the state, from the western terminus of the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the Indiana border. It dwarfs both the original 160-mile Pennsylvania Turnpike, the first super toll-highway, and the new $250 million, 118-mile New Jersey Turnpike (TIME, Aug. 27). With both of these, after a 35-mile Philadelphia bypass links them, the Ohio Turnpike will provide a super-highway route (see map) enabling motorists to drive...
Abilene, near the end of the line on the Kansas Pacific, was a particularly lively spot, for it was also the terminus of the long overland trail from Texas-the Chisholm Trail, named for the half-breed Cherokee trader who marked it out, Jesse Chisholm. It was in Abilene, moreover, that Wild Bill Hickok, the famed scout and gunfighter, roamed the main street as town marshal with a pair of pistols and a sawed-off shotgun...
...getting their pictures, TVmen were knocked about by MPs in Hawaii, trampled by crowds in San Francisco, manhandled by police in Washington. TV film was flown across the Pacific from Hawaii to the U.S., hurtled in a souped-up Mustang fighter from California to Omaha, the western terminus of the coaxial cable. After MacArthur reached Washington, film was flown back to the West Coast...
...giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard of California, the Texas Co. and Socony-Vacuum. It took Hull almost three years to finish Tapline. To throw his line from the oilfields at Abqaiq near the Persian Gulf across four Arab lands to the Sidon terminus, Hull had to organize supply lines halfway around the world...