Complex sentence: Herbert C. Whitehurst, director of the D.C. highway department, died on September 1,1948, and just a week later D.C. officials proposed that the then-under construction freeway be named for him.
Split into simpler sentences: Herbert C. Whitehurst, director of the D.C. highway department, died on September 1,1948. A week later the Commissioners of the District of Columbia decided that the then-under construction freeway would be named for him.