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Show FEDERAL ROAD PLAN IS NEWj First Appropriation Regarding Re-garding Highway Work Was Made in 1893 In 1R93 the federal government appropriated ap-propriated $10,000 to investigate road conditions In tho United States. Now many hundreds of millions are being expended for road Improvement. Six years ago only about one million mil-lion persons were using indlvldualj motor transportation. Now nearly ten million Individuals have expanded the radius of their sphere of life and business. Forty million people are daily using' the highway and being educated to Uneconomic Un-economic necessity for better ones The public demand for better highways high-ways Is insatiable. The problem Is to educate enough young men In highway high-way engineering so that they may be built economically. oo |