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...mile, $239 million Massachu-setts Turnpike was opened several weeks ago, after two years of construction. The superhighway has two roads of three lanes each, separated by an 18-foot center strip. It ends at the New York State line, connecting with N.Y. Route 22, for Albany at West Stockbridge...
...Class of 1931 feel uncertain about the future: it was ambition also," he said last June. The present generation is in more of a hurry than its forerunners, not from ambition, but because they "have already made up their minds as to where they want to go on the superhighway of their chosen corporation or profession," he stated...
...Cash Register this week marketed a "Post-Tronic" banking machine that electronically posts depositors' checks, virtually eliminates the possibility of a clerical error. In another few months one Midwest state will even field-test an electronic control system to steer and otherwise operate cars in a stretch of superhighway...
...contractors group anticipated that at its 1960 peak the 41,000-mile superhighway program will employ no fewer than 900,000, half of them building, half of them producing the materials and services needed. It also predicted that by 1960 road construction will reach $8 to $9 billion a year (1956 level: about $5.1 billion). Projecting estimates of the American Road Builders' Association, an $8 billion year will call for the following amounts of basic materials for roadbuilding...
...would have startled U.S. motorists with a big switch: fast cars in the outside right lane and slow traffic in the left lanes, and service facilities on the center strip rather than the roadsides. The commission turned down these innovations. As built, the turnpike is simply an ordinary, superb superhighway...