Ex-Senator Bourne Proposes $3 Billion Good Roads Plan
Former Senator Jonathan Bourne Jr., chairing the joint federal aid for post roads committee, urges a $3 billion plan over fifty years to fund highway construction and maintenance. The plan creates a $1 billion construction fund and a $2 billion maintenance pool, apportioned to states by area population assessed value and road mileage, with a federal loan program and fifty-year bonds. The highway commission would determine each state's share based on the combined metrics and their state percentage.
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United States
Jonathan Bourne, Jr
Joint
Committee On
Congress
United States Treasury
Bourne
United States Highway Fund
United States Highway Commission
Bourne plan outlined for national highway system
The Bourne plan envisions apportionment of the highway fund to states, a District of Columbia head office, state highway divisions led by U S engineers, a national school of highway and bridge engineering in Washington, and a U S highway commission. Adoption is voluntary with burdens and benefits defined, requiring constitutional amendments in twenty one states for public works bonds. Incentives hinge on government credit and rapid road construction, plus agriculture at stake.
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District of Columbia
United States
National School of Highway and Bridge Engineering
Washington
J. EB. Pennypacker
Bourne Committee
The Modern Road Vision by Berton Braley
An ode praising the evolution from gravel roads to modern smooth highways. It contrasts old time dirt paths with a future of reliable roads built to endure weather, spare horses, and keep crops moving, describing an ideal road as a thing of beauty.
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Sant
Berton Braley
Making Good Roads by Burning Up Poor Ones
A historical note describes turning gumbo mud into baked clay roads by layering wood, gumbo, and fire to drive out moisture and create a durable surface. The process yields hard clinker that, when broken and spread, forms a solid dry road.
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United States
C. H. Claudy
Maintenance priority in road upkeep
Hon. Logan Waller Page, head of the U S Office of Public Roads, stresses the necessity of ongoing road maintenance after construction. He warns that persistent maintenance costs are far smaller than the eventual losses to communities if roads deteriorate.
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Logan Waller Page
United States Office of Public Roads
Feminine Limitations in Language Spelling and Memory
Fragmented archaic prose discusses supposed feminine limits in pronunciation and spelling. The text mentions women’s ability to decode words and phrases and hints at inherited traits affecting learning.
Man's power to brighten life and ease misery
A fragment asserts a man holds a unique power to make the world happier by alleviating unhappiness, noting deposits and hindrances while promising a significant change to the existing state of affairs. The text is garbled and appears to be an OCR fragment.
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