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Show Fast Freight Highways as Great National Need Maj. Elihu Church, traffic engineer of the, port of New York, is authority for the statement that this country will soon he gridironed by a great system sys-tem of motor trunk line highways, which will revolutionize present methods meth-ods of transportation. lie predicts that it is only a question of time when special roads must be built for the exclusive use of food and freight carriers. car-riers. Since this condition seems Inevitable, Inevit-able, engineers urge that a system of I special motor truck highways be planned at once. Major Church also points out that such highways, when properly built, will shorten the distance between cities and hills leveled so that a speed of 20 miles an hour or more can be a maintained for long distances. |