Word: thruway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey last week formally opened the first section of what will be the longest, best-planned and most remarkable toll road in America, the New York Thruway. At a banquet in Rochester, Dewey pressed a button that opened turnpike exchanges on the 115-mile stretch from West Henrietta, near Rochester, to Lowell, near Utica. For New York, the Thruway may be the most important achievement of its kind since De Witt Clinton in 1825 opened the Erie Canal and gave the state the jump on its neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great...
...York City will not be ready until next year, but already real-estate prices, retail business, industry and construction are booming along the right of way. International Business Machines, Carrier Corp., branches of General Motors, Ford, Allied Chemical and dozens of other industries are digging in on the Thruway route...
What makes the Thruway remarkable is not its length but its good-sense planning. Following the historic route from New York up the Hudson to Albany, then west through the Mohawk Valley to Buffalo, it passes within 20 miles of 85% of the state's 15 million residents. Spurs to the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey turnpikes, Garden State Parkway, the Pennsylvania state line and Niagara Falls will add 137 miles and make it the best integrated of all toll roads. The spurs and a smoothly planned system of interchanges will also help overcome the vexing problems of entry...
...Empire state is shopping for several hundred engineers to assist in its huge program of Thruway and highway construction. Applications must be received by the New York Civil Service Commission by December...
...reach the eleven-year-old Pennsylvania Turnpike. Once across Pennsylvania, they may be able to cut 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...