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Interstate  adj.  Pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States; as, interstate commerce.






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"Interstate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dobbs came along, ambitious to change his farm life for an aviation career, and secured work helping about the grounds. Mr. King sent Dave to Grimshaw for training. The Interstate Aeroplane Co. wanted to exhibit its Baby Racer, a novel biplane. Dave made a successful demonstration, and won the admiration and good will ...
— Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane • Roy Rockwood

... small even to be called a "whistle stop," because no trains came near it. An interstate bus route passed through on the main highway, and that was the sole link with the towns to north and south, except for ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... not want his old lordliness, even now. He was not one to discuss business with a woman, but she learned of the affair which was hurrying him back to Washington, nothing less than rate-hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission, if you please. The able young man was now assistant counsel for his father's railway. However, he was to pass this way soon again, ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... the Constitution was framed, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, not only opposed the African slave trade, but interdicted the interstate slave trade. All these States then regarded slavery as a great evil, destined soon to disappear, and the failure to adopt gradual emancipation arose, mainly, from the fact, that the majority could not agree as to the practical details of the measure. ...
— The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... and his legal assistants are not kind to "captains of industry" in this particular branch of interstate commerce. ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball

... feel the influence of the bullish sentiment," Fiedler continued. "It isn't the business of a broker to try to influence a customer's choice, but I'd like you to step outside"—they were in the manager's private office—"and look at the quotation board for a moment. Interstate Copper is remarkably active ...
— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass

... accomplish no permanent result, except as they attempt to substitute a universal and common law, supported by the public sentiment of the civilized world, for human edicts founded on human will and supported by physical force. The American System is but the establishment of interstate and international arbitration as the common and usual course of governmental action instead of as a voluntary or spasmodic manifestation ...
— "Colony,"—or "Free State"? "Dependence,"—or "Just Connection"? • Alpheus H. Snow



Words linked to "Interstate" :   intrastate, interstate highway, Interstate Commerce Commission, main road



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