We built the transcontinental railroad, the Interstate Highway System, the Hoover Dam, Grand Central Station.
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It was Eisenhower who launched the Interstate Highway System and new investment in scientific research.
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President Dwight Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System had positive multiplier effects for the American economy.
That was before the interstate highway system and Medicare and scores of other programs we rely on.
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Targeting the developing interstate highway system, he opened more Little Americas in Arizona and Salt Lake City.
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The same can be said of the interstate highway system and other, but not many other, enterprises.
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From the first railroads to the Interstate Highway System, this nation has always been built to compete.
The fund is the primary source of federal money for transportation infrastructure and the interstate highway system.
From the very first railroads to the Interstate Highway System, our nation has always been built to compete.
America is the nation that built the transcontinental railroad, brought electricity to rural communities, constructed the Interstate Highway System.
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For example, the interstate highway system, air traffic control system and even the Internet were the result of DoD projects.
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The Recovery Act that we put forward had one of the biggest investments in infrastructure since Eisenhower started the Interstate Highway System.
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The Recovery Act included the most serious investment in our infrastructure since President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s.
Past generations gave us the interstate highway system and the Hoover Dam.
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It did, at least, create some new infrastructure, a whole new kind of infrastructure, on the same order as the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System.
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So President Eisenhower helped make it possible to build an Interstate Highway System, and that, too, transformed the nation -- as much as the railways had.
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To offer one analogy, just imagine what transportation was like in this country back in the 1920s and 1930s before the Interstate Highway System was built.
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Roads and railways are being upgraded as part of the largest investment in infrastructure since President Eisenhower half a century ago initiated the Interstate Highway System.
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Dwight Eisenhower's support for the Interstate highway system was rooted in a disastrous transcontinental convoy that bogged down on dilapidated roads early in his army career.
Mr. Cuomo said some crossings including the Holland Tunnel, a critical traffic link between Manhattan, New Jersey and the interstate highway system will be closed through at least Wednesday.
If we look at any major infrastructure project, whether the Erie Canal, the interstate highway system, even NASA, we see that it was a new technology that solved old problems.
The less glamorous locales may not have as much homegrown science, but they make up for that with other attractions, like cheap land and easy access to the Interstate highway system.
Think of the Interstate Highway System in the '50s.
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The government is what built the Interstate Highway System.
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In 2009, he was aggravated when he was told that none of the money from the stimulus would be spent on a signature project, a modern-day Hoover Dam or Interstate Highway System.
And we're putting Americans to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, schools and waterways with the largest investment in our infrastructure since the Interstate Highway System was built in the 1950s.
Next, we can put Americans to work today building the infrastructure of tomorrow. (Applause.) From the first railroads to the Interstate Highway System, our nation has always been built to compete.
It was a Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower, a proud son of Kansas -- (applause) -- who started the Interstate Highway System, and doubled down on science and research to stay ahead of the Soviets.
And we made the largest investment in infrastructure since the creation of the Interstate Highway System, putting Americans to work rebuilding our roads, bridges, waterways -- doing the work that America needs to be done.
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It's not exactly a landscape of mom-and-pop inns, but Liang says there's a parallel with the U.S. of the 1950s before the interstate highway system was finished: The market is fragmented and full of opportunity.
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