Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delights offered by the expanding U.S. Interstate Highway Sys tem is the prospect of vast stretches of highway, completely free of intersections and traffic lights. The ultimate -coast to coast without a red light - will not be possible until 1972. But right now, the American Automobile Association announces, a driver can wheel onto the Massachusetts Turnpike in downtown Boston, go on to pick up the New York Thruway (Interstate 90), continue through Pennsylvania to Interstate 71 leading to the Ohio Turnpike and Indiana Toll Road (both posted Interstate 80/90), then, using the recently completed Chicago bypass, proceed on Interstate...
...governments, equally in need of new sources of money, are also getting into the act. One way is by selling air rights above freeways, which often cut wide swaths across land that once yielded badly needed taxes. Cincinnati, for example, has sold air rights over a stretch of interstate highway to Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. Even in Los Angeles, which still has plenty of open space, governmental agencies are studying plans for permitting developers to build over the freeways that stretch through the city's downtown area. In Washington, the Department of Labor plans...
...said, "Out on Highway Sixty...
...looked for him, first out at his home, a crumbling shack by the highway. His wife and his mother were there, but they did not know where he could be found. Then we looked along the main street in the Negro section of town. Mary Common went on ahead and disappeared into the dark of a pool-room. Inside were a number of young men, all very silent as I entered. David was wearing a straw-hat over a shaven head. By his side his mother and his wife, who had someway beaten us back into town. He smiled...
...calculates that the Government will be able to distribute a $30 billion "fiscal dividend" to the nation. Part of it should be lower taxes to stimulate civilian demand, says the council, and part of it should be a rapid boost in federal outlays for education, health, housing, pollution control, highway beautification and the fight against slums...