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Show Money Apportioned for All National Highways Of the $75,000,000 available Secretary Secre-tary Jardine has awarded $73,125,000 to the states in aid of highway building. build-ing. In the amount apportioned, New York is only second, with $3,647,156, Texas leading with $4,426,917. Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, whose greatest extent is east and west, naturally leads Illinois, whose length is vertical on the map. And much-advertised Florida is thirty-ninth thirty-ninth on the list, following not only New Jersey but Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming. Under the federal aid highway system sys-tem the nation is assisting, by the payment pay-ment of about 45 per cent of the cost, in the construction of some 170,000 miles of truly national routes, enough to cross the continent more than fifty times, if that were all that such roads can do. What the system does in fact provide is a complex network covering cover-ing every state and even Hawaii, but not Alaska, whose means of communication communi-cation are otherwise provided for. Texas gets the biggest share, but it is a big state. The completion of the system will give further incentive and opportunity to rubber-tired neighbor-liness, neighbor-liness, already a notable development of the gasoline age. |