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Show NEW ERA OPENS IN TRANSPORTATION 0 - i . Wonders performed by Motor Vehicles During War to Speed Highway-Work, Highway-Work, Looking' back over the period of the war, .one is amazed at tho Increase in the use of the highways for motor transportation, trans-portation, 'the four years of conflict have put us in a new era. The various problems prob-lems involved in carria.ee over the roads have increased immensely in importance. Tho danger is that we may fail to grasp' the true import of the war's lessons and think and plan on a scale far below the demand or the upportunitirp. .Before the war who could have suggested sug-gested without incurring ridicule the transportation of an army division of .'iS.onu men. wit h all its equipment, over a distance of 1 '3 0 mi'e- in sixteen hours? Who could have anticipated a lnntnt transport svstem. such as saved Verdun, when, for two and a hall" months, day in and dav out. a truck passed a given point in each direction every twenty-two seconds? sec-onds? Who could have said without being be-ing dubbed a drea mer t ha t the inadequacy inad-equacy of our rail trnnportath-u system would force the us. of mot.r trucks for long-distanre -x press se.-vire between points as far apart as "Washington and Xew York? .Su-li developments were tw-vond tw-vond the expectations of even -the most enthusiastic highway advocates five yen rs apo; today even the man in the street iLgards them as commonplace. |