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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...
...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...
...Traffic on the Pulaski Skyway-New Jersey's elevated high speed automobile thruway to Manhattan-was jammed into a honking, mile-long tangle by a mule named Devil's Brother. When the cops arrived, they found pans, bundles and other impedimenta from the mule's pack scattered over the highway, and the beast itself engaged in a tug of war with Owner Clarence Hornbeck, a cadaverous, 58-year-old man in a tall silk hat. Hornbeck's explanation: he had bet some friends in Galesburg, Ill. that he could walk the mule to New York...