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Show A NEW RECORD IN HIGHWAY BUILDING The United States this year is spending spend-ing a record sum for highways. The 12-months' total will reach $1,360,026,-000. $1,360,026,-000. This is twenty-one per cent more than last year and five per cent more than in 1926, " when the former high; mark was established. i The movement toward building good roads is a product of this century. The perfection of the automoDUe, the growth of industry and the social and business necessity of improved trans- ; portation arteries all contributed to the result. America in a few brief years has developed the finest highway sys- tern in the world, and every year is wit- j nessing still greater progress. Highways and prosperity move to-; gether. Every dollar spent in good road : building is a dolar that is a sound, div- idend-returning investment. It has been said that Rome was only as great as her highways and the same is again true of any modern nation toaay. |