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...retained 100 picturesque acres in the heart of Memphis-one half being virgin woods with massive oaks 250 years old. As additional compensation to us, the State and City built a scenic parkway through our tract 100 ft. wide, ¾ mile long, complete in every detail, costing them $175,000. So Old Tom didn't lose much of his family's inheritance by the tax litigations after...
Crosley: station wagon (called "errand-wagon") at $420, "Parkway delivery" at $350. Claims: 50 miles per gallon, cent-a-mile operation...
Motoring is a Plugge passion; he once drove every foot of the way from New York to Los Angeles and back. Captain Plugge greatly admires U. S. mechanical ingenuity. Last week, while driving over Connecticut's Merritt Parkway, a highspeed, four-lane artery paralleling the cluttered old Post Road, Captain Plugge greatly admired the glass curb reflectors which outline the road at night. He stopped, got out, examined the reflectors minutely with a flashlight. Later he asked the Connecticut Highway Department for samples and manufacturing details, saying he intended to urge installation of the reflectors on English highways...
After losing to Lehman in the 1984 gubernatorial contest, Moses was appointed to his present task of coordinating the city park and parkway systems by Mayor La Guardia. He is also head of the Triborough Bridge and Henry Hudson Parkway Authorities, and a member of the New York World's Fair Commission...
Slickly engineered, with a minimum of turns and steep grades, the twin three-lane strips of the Autobahnen are separated by a hedged and grassed parkway 16 feet wide, which keeps traffic separated and cuts down headlight glare. Service stations, hotels, repair shops and rest stations are spaced along the highway with Teutonic regularity (26 miles between filling stations) and at even intervals there is a blackboard to call motorists to the phone for messages from home or summonses to emergency military duty...