The Cold War produced supersonic jets, interstate highways, a manned lunar landing and the Internet.
The Dallas metroplex is strong in telecoms, aerospace, distribution (four interstate highways converge there) and banking.
The growth of McDonald's in the 1950s tracked the growth of the interstate highways.
In the 20th century rail travel languished as Americans fell in love with cars and interstate highways.
Once natural-gas refueling stations are built along our interstate highways, large trucks can run on cheap natural gas.
That's a tactic I've long since used to avoid interstate highways, and it seems to work well regardless of device.
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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced a ban on vehicles on interstate highways in the state to ease travel for emergency vehicles.
The National Defence Highway Act actually is very interesting because the entire system of interstate highways was developed under the Eisenhower administration.
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New Interstate highways began replacing Route 66 and bypassing the cities.
She lived during the birth of airplanes, skyscrapers, suspension bridges, radio and television, antibiotics, atomic bombs and energy, interstate highways, jet travel and a moon landing.
We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits, and obviously within those limits are things like infrastructure, interstate highways, and airports.
But the past ten years have seen another source of growth, as interstate highways have become clogged in places and have shown the effects of a lack of investment.
Though the state's transportation authorities strongly advised citizens not to drive, some interstate highways in Oklahoma were jammed with stalled traffic, as heavy rains drenched roadways and flooded low-lying areas.
People from all around the world would come to America to see the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hoover Dam -- (applause) -- and Grand Central Station and the interstate highways.
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Gas stations along interstate highways need to have generators.
The fun has already started in parts of Kansas and Nebraska, with the snowstorm expected to roll over the Great Plains between interstate highways 70 and 80, according to CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis.
SolarCity is installing solar panel arrays to power Tesla Supercharging stations built along Interstate highways that let drivers of its Model S sports sedan add 150 miles of range to their vehicles in 30 minutes.
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Starting with the Gold Rush of 1849, California has been the destination of choice for Americans, with migrants coming originally in wagon trains over thousands of miles, then by railroad, by plane, and finally by car over interstate highways.
Home Depot, IKEA, Target and Wal-Mart all have distribution centres of more than 1m square feet (100, 000 square metres) in the Savannah area to handle cargo coming through the port, which sits at a nexus of interstate highways and railway lines that provide quick access to the south-east and Midwest.
When the US embarked in the 1950s on the construction of the 42, 795-mile National System of Interstate and Defence Highways, Americans applauded.
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And major highways in Texas, including portions of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highways 60, 87 and 187, were closed because of blizzard conditions.
Two dozen soldiers from the Kansas National Guard later searched the interstate and U.S. Highways 54 and 400 farther south for any stranded travelers.
Transportation officials reopened several closed highways, including a stretch of Interstate 70 spanning from Denver to Colby, Kan.
These are jobs that private contractors contract with the state or the city or the county to build roads and highways, the same way that we built the Interstate Highway System and the Intercontinental Railroad System.
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The Kansas Department of Transportation reported that many highways in the central part of the state, including Interstate 70, were completely covered by snow and ice on Monday morning.
Nixon, who was Eisenhower's vice president, had his own impact on the highways and their energy use in implementing the staggeringly unpopular directive to limit Interstate speeds to 55 mph, perhaps the most widely disobeyed law in U.S. history.
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