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Good Roads and Highways Drive Nation Forward
The article argues for improved highways to cut transportation costs as motor trucks replace horse and rail transport. It notes funding strains, material shortages, and the wartime boost to road work, with a $500 million federal program and $45 million in surplus trucks allotted to states for road construction.
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New England
Pacific Coast
Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
State Highway Departments
War Department
Post Office
Department of Agriculture