Show AMERICAN HIGHWAY BUILDING WILL COST 11 PER CAPITA THIS YEAR A M road building program this year involves A expenditure of 11 for every man woman and child in the country according to recent estimate it i is s expected to reach the tremendous total of widening of old roads is an important feature particularly the addition of shoulders on paved highways accordia according 6 to the american automobile association this means that at the end of 1928 we will have more than miles of surfaced highways the federal aid system consisting of miles of important interstate trunk lines will be about two thirds completed our highways 6 are the arteries that za give life to the lia nation tion they take more money than almost any other item in the budget and they pay it back more rapidly in ill social cial and industrial progress |