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Word: speedwalk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodyear has been working on the idea as a safe, fast method of travel in overcrowded cities. Last spring, with the Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Co. of Aurora, Ill., its partner in the new belt company, Goodyear installed its first project: a $75,000 "speedwalk" to carry New Jersey commuters 227 ft. from the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad's Jersey City terminal up an incline to the Erie Railroad station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Subway of the Future | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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