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Article: ON THE ROAD TO REMOVING TRANSPORTATION TRUSTS.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 25, 1996
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Byline: George Will
WASHINGTON -- In 1919 the Army ordered a young officer to take a convoy from Camp Meade in Maryland to the Presidio in San Francisco to assess the military utility of Army vehicles and America's highways. Dwight Eisenhower's convoy averaged five miles per hour, and 35 years later he proposed funding one of the largest and most productive public works projects in American history, the Interstate Highway System.
This was the flowering of an idea advanced by General Motors' futuristic exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, Long Island, and advocated in 1944 as an antidote to the anticipated postwar depression. Also, ...