Word: unsnarl
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Every city in the U.S. has growing traffic congestion; billions must be spent to unsnarl it. In New York City, some $40 million a year is being spent on arterial highways. Boston is building a $20 million elevated highway to relieve downtown traffic; Atlanta has a $75 million expressway system on its books; Columbus has one blueprinted. Cities will spend more millions removing the "blighted areas" that rot away their cores. In Manhattan alone, whole blocks of Harlem slums are now being razed; modern brick apartments are taking their place...
...magazine to military readers. TIME uses the established distribution facilities of Air Force Times, and also Stars and Stripes. It is Perret's job to unsnarl the ever occurring transportation snags, and to solve the multitude of snafus that occur in the complicated business of distributing promptly each week thousands of copies of TIME to 550 military newsstands...
...highway planners, the Delaware Memorial Bridge stood for something more exciting than statistics: it is one more completed, solid link in a plan to unsnarl the major postwar highway problems of the northeastern U.S. By November, if all goes well, the new $250 million New Jersey Turnpike will siphon the outpouring of trucks and cars from New York, run them across the Jersey meadows and farmlands at 60 to 70 m.p.h., and spill them out on the new Delaware bridge in half the time of today's routes. From there, in mid 1952, southbound motorists should be able...
...hail-fellow-well-met with a razor-sharp mind, Tex Colbert went to Detroit in 1933 from Manhattan's Rathbone, Perry, Kelley & Drye, Chrysler attorneys, and stayed there as resident attorney. In 1943, he got his first crack at production problems when Chrysler sent him to Chicago to unsnarl red tape entangling the Dodge aircraft engine plant, world's biggest. He did such a good job that he was made plant manager, turned out 18,413 of the motors that powered...
...group claims that the reorganization along Commission Report lines would save about four billions yearly, and unsnarl a sizable amount of Federal red tape. They point out that the Commission was non-partisan and expert, and argue that the plans would efficiently clean up a chaotic bureaucracy...