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...northern Ohio and Indiana. At its northern end, the Jersey Turnpike will link with the highspeed New York State Thruway, already under construction between Manhattan, Buffalo and the Pennsylvania border. With another twist of a cloverleaf, it can join New York's present parkway system into New England, zip up Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway. Massachusetts is now a bad spot, but it is planning an expressway which will link lower New England with the Maine and New Hampshire expressways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGHWAYS: Bridge In | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...vegetables come from hydroponic (water culture) farms run by the U.S. Army in Japan. The Air Force started its vegetable runs before the Korean war was a month old, by last week had shipped 500,000 lbs. of produce to Korea. A favorite G.I. item: onions, which give a zip to meat rations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOGISTICS: Vegetable Run | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...first four rounds Williams fought with the assurance of a champion, deftly blocking Carter's bullish charges, jabbing and stabbing with lefts, uppercutting swift rights. But for all Williams' style, the blows bounced off dogged Jimmy Carter like pingpong balls. The Ike Williams zip, which had stiffened nearly half of his 137 opponents, was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: End of a Champion | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...London, half a dozen able staffers-most of them stout Socialists-have also quit, as fed up as Editor Chapman. Said Gordon Boshell, who had been hired to pep up the Herald's dreary feature page but left to freelance: "The paper doesn't want zip and it doesn't want brains. As a result, it's a dreadful hodgepodge of the mediocre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Herald's Birthday | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...most U.S. motorists, hot-rodders are a breed of nerveless nuisances who zip their noisy jalopies in & out of traffic with uncanny skill. But to two young Hollywood publicity men, Robert Lindsay, 27, and Robert ("Pete") Petersen, 24, hot-rodders seemed to be a custom-made target for a new magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prosperity on Wheels | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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