What is "thruways"

Usage examples of "thruways".

After eleven months and twenty-two patrols on the Continental Thruways, each team had a thirty-day furlough coming.

Thus grew the continental thruways with their four speed lanes in each direction, each a half-mile wide separated east and west and north and south by a half-mile-wide landscaped divider.

Under the Three Nation Compact, the thruways now wove a net across the entire North American continent.

As for armament, Beulah had weapons to meet every conceivable skirmish in the deadly battle to keep Continental Thruways fast-moving and safe.

Racked against the ceiling were banks of cutting torches, a grim reminder that death and injury still rode the thruways with increasing frequency.

The 2200 hour density reports from Cinncy had been given before the Ohio State-Cal football game traffic had hit the thruways and densities now were peaking near twenty thousand vehicles for the one-hundred-mile block of westbound NAT 26 out of Cincinnati.

More vehicles streamed onto the westbound thruways, crossing over and dropping down into the same lanes they held coming out of the north-south road.

Extra units had already been put into service on all thruways through the Midwest and snow-burners were waging a losing battle from Wichita west to the Rockies around Alamosa, Colorado.

State and local authorities already had been notified in the event the fugitives left the thruways and tried to escape on a state freeway.