Word: cloverleafs
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...rickety house seems doomed to a premature end. Even though the termites will spare the building for another decade, it may fall victim to highway progress. Massachusetts plans another link in its great highway chain--a cloverleaf--right on the site of the Newell Boat House...
...westward to Chicago without intersection or stop sign along new expressways planned for 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...
...head and headed for Cleveland. The back of his car was piled with suitcases and a filing cabinet full of material for speeches. Sunday afternoon, with an ear-to-ear grin wreathing his spectacled face, he drove into Cleveland's southeast end and walked into the Cloverleaf Café. "Hey boys," said someone, "here's Senator Taft...
With the 1950 political campaign still more than a year away, Senator Robert Alphonso Taft had taken to the hustings. The very first day he got down to business; a committee met him at the Cloverleaf and escorted him to a nearby hall where he addressed 350 delegates to the state convention of the Polish Legion of American Veterans...
...small independent operators. Big Western Air Lines - already sparring with United, TWA and Continental for the juicy Denver-Los Angeles run - popped up in Denver last week to tell CAB it also wanted to operate feeders. Along came Frontier Airways, Inc. to say it should be the one to cloverleaf the Denver area with feeders. It had no planes, no pilots and no experience, but it had $100,000 in subscribed stock, and was backed by big Braniff Airways (TIME, Aug. 21). The small independent operators argued that if the big lines got the local feeder business, free competition would...