Interstate Highway System
[ in-ter-steyt hahy-wey sis-tuhm ]
noun
Official name Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways . a network of U.S. highways connecting the 48 conterminous states, begun in the 1950s and estimated to carry about 25 percent of the nation's traffic: also established in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, but without physical connections to other states or territories.: Compare National Highway System.
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And in the 20th century, the federal government built the Interstate Highway System, without which, say, Walmart, could not exist.
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