“The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour.”

— Philip K. Dick

Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 12 (p. 132)

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American author 1928–1982

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Source: Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856), p. 42; Cited in: Scientific American April 19, 1856. p. 254 ( online http://books.google.com/books?id=tuw8AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA254#v=onepage&q&f=false); and Vose (1857, p. 429)