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Show COAST ID COAST llflS PLAN a traoscoptilehtaJ hardisvrfaccil highway stretching from New Fork t" jsan 1'ranclsco could be built with the I money which American motorists will save next year an the result of the recent reductions .in the price of auto- mobile tires and tubes. What's more-enough more-enough money could be left over to build a first c!as3 battleship for i'r.-cle i'r.-cle Sam. The recent reduction In the iirice j of tires and Inner tubes will meari a saving to the 8,000.000 American motorists, mo-torists, says the j:. F. Goodrich RpbV ber company, of approximately H5Q.-000,000 H5Q.-000,000 Iii other words) the country's annual tire bill of about $1 iIihmhpi.Oioj will be chopped down to $850,000,000. Anyone who Pas trouble m .niggling such big figures can get an Ides of what this haing will amount to by remembering that a mile of good hard-surfaced, hard-surfaced, dm able highway, can be built in most sections of the country! for about $5. ( 00. and a cro.ss-country ! road could therefore be built with the. amount sied with quite a few mil-! lions Ifft over. The average motorist's tiro bill for, year amounts to about $125) Next' year, because of the reduced prices. I ?.:.- will be lopped off of this' amount This Individual saving doc: not appear large, but when It lscon-sidered lscon-sidered that S,o0o,00o motorists Willi save the same amount, the tot"! climbs j to a dizzy height. Tiie reduction in tire pricey Is expected ex-pected bj the Goodrich company to stimulate the increased use Of motor cars, because n decrease In the cost ot motoring tends to influence man' prospective car owners Into the buying buy-ing mood. |