United States to Host World Highway Experts in 1930
Washington reports that leading highway officials from around the world will visit the United States in 1930 to study American road improvement and use. Thomas H. MacDonald notes universal interest in the U S program, mass production of roads, and the need to expand highways to meet growing motor transportation demands.
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Washington, D. C
United States
International Road Commission
Paris
Thomas H. MacDonald
United States Bureau of Public Roads
Highway Education Board
MacDonald
France
Europe
British Isles
Congress
Coolidge
United States to host 1930 highway congress observers
The 1930 international highway congress will turn the United States into a giant laboratory for highway development and motor transportation. American officials will host foreign engineers to study advances and social and economic impacts while learning from other nations’ practices. An American committee will organize preparations for the event. Smallwoods tour east after an automobile trip to eastern cities and Windsor.
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MacDonald
United States
International Commission
H. H. Rice
Automobile Chamber. of Commerce
Pyke Johnson
Highway Education Board
H. H. Kelly
Department of Commerce
Smallwoods
Clyde Smallwood
Dearborn Avenue
van Automobile
Smallwood
Waterloo
Windsor
Road trip highlighted by scenic mountain roads
Smallwood reports a 2,730 mile two week journey visiting Ont Niagara Falls Buffalo N Y Philadelphia Gettysburg and Pittsburgh with the best stretch described as the mountain roads between Philadelphia and Gettysburg during the return.
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Niagara Falls
Buffalo
N.Y
New York City
Philadelphia
Gettysburg
Pittsburgh
Smallwood
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