Word: thruway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even so, Coach Schwartzwalder took his lumps until the early '50s, when independent Syracuse (enrollment: 7,000) decided to go big time. Counting on the New York Thruway to bring new fans to the stadium, Syracuse gave Schwartzwalder authority and money to recruit some shock troops ("If we can get 'em, we can coach 'em"). In 1953 a Negro halfback named Jimmy Brown showed up unannounced, went on to become the finest running back in the game (he now leads the pros as a Cleveland Brown), and in no time Schwartzwalder and Syracuse were rising toward...
Though Mayor Wagner has yet to block the Hudson and barricade the Thruway, the secession crisis between city and state is rapidly becoming critical. City Democrats are fed up with the paltry allotment of tax monies which Albany Republicans vote them, and are now considering the possibility of taking the city out of the state altogether. Westchester Country, lush back yard for Madison Avenue, would presumably join the new enclave...
...Ohio, which were pushing their own major road-building programs when the federal-aid Highway Act was passed in 1956, came into the program well prepared. Most of the modern state toll roads already built will be incorporated into the new interstate system, e.g., the straight, broad New York Thruway, the Pennsylvania and Ohio turnpikes. Solid advances in building new roads also have been scored by Maryland, New Mexico, Missouri, Washington and Illinois...
...nation's economic and social life, the federal program will work far-reaching changes. Burgeoning highways will start new businesses all along their routes; $150 million in new plants has gone up along Massachusetts' six-year-old Route 128, and the recently completed New York State Thruway has already attracted dozens of industries. New towns will grow up around the geometric cloverleafs, and commuters will be able to drive long distances to work at a mile a minute. Highway motels, now growing at the rate of 3,000 a year, will multiply even faster to serve additional millions...
...BREAKDOWN INSURANCE will be sold for 10? by garages that hold exclusive rights to aid motorists on 427-mile New York State Thruway. Good for one day, policy entitles driver to free emergency services costing up to $25 in cases of stalling, tire trouble...