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...money and given her a blow on the head that sent her into a fit. She had been subject to fits since a garret ceiling fell on her head in childhood. "When I came out of my fit," she said, "I found myself between the two men in a roadway. . . . About half an hour later we came to a house. There I saw an old woman and two young ones. The old woman took me by the hand and asked if I would 'go their way,' saying if I would I should have fine clothes. I answered...
Rain fell, a sleety, chilling March drizzle. Up the green slopes of Arlington Cemetery rolled a black limousine. On a roadway near a freshly dug grave it stopped. Inside, Franklin Roosevelt leaned back against the beige upholstery and looked out on a dismal scene. They were burying big, bluff "Pa" Watson, the man whose boisterous laugh and high good humor had never failed to cheer the President. If Franklin Roosevelt's lean, set face showed any emotion, no one could record it. The rain streaming down the windows curtained the man within. He was left to himself...
Engineers erect a steel framework of the panels, lay down planks for the roadway and the bridge is ready for use. If necessary, most of the bridge can be put together on a river bank, rolled up on rollers and pushed gently into place across the stream...
Trucks were already moving supplies from the Ledo railhead over "Pick's Pike" to Myitkyina. The first convoy got through to Tengyueh in China via "Chiang's Lane," the narrow alternate roadway 50,000 coolies had hacked over 8,000-ft. mountains. When last-ditch Jap suicide squads are cleaned up, other convoys, using the old Burma Road from Wanting north, would help feed China's munitions-starved armies...
Startled motorists in Darien, Conn. buzzed along the first steel roadway last week. It was a test strip of steel grid, like the landing mats that surface emergency military airfields. The builders believed they were pioneering the highway of the future...