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Show Postwar Highway Act To Benefit Farmers The federal aid highway act, re-lently re-lently approved by the President, provides half a billion dollars a year '.or the first three postwar years, an equal amount to be matched by the states. The act provides for principal traffic arteries into and around the :hief metropolitan areas, cities and industrial area, according to Charles :- . . : -a f - . - , ; - . , .1 VI. Upham, director of the American Road Builders association. It fur-Jier fur-Jier provides for principal secondary second-ary and feeder roads, including !arm-to-market roads, rural free delivery de-livery and school bus lines, either nside or outside municipalities of ess than 5,000 population. Plans will not await the end of Jie war. Routes will be determined, right-of-way purchased and a comprehensive com-prehensive plan drawn up tn the lear future. |