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Show ROAD CONSTRUCTION PLACED IN A NEW LIGHT. Now that Washington is committed to an intelligent road construction con-struction program, it is calming and heartening to realize that Canada has come to the identical conclusion after three years and more of war. England likewise has decided that the highway net work is as essential a part of her war-making resources as many an item over which her successive ministries have split and fallen. To engineers who have been engaged in this work, as well as to the more numerous groups who have been urging extensive programs pro-grams for reasons that are not so logical, this almost universal change in viewpoint comes as a complete and welcomed justification justifica-tion for their long continued advocacy. The formation last week of the Highways Industries Association seems to indicate, furthermore, further-more, that the business of manufacturing materials and machines for road construction may be put on a different and broader basis, and that an understanding has been reached through which much of the unhappy propaganda and counter propaganda that has prejudiced pre-judiced many people may disappear to the benefit of all concerned. Engineering News-Record. |
