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...week approved the biggest face lifting job in U.S. history. By a 388 to 19 vote it passed a road-building program calling for 13 years of federal and state spending amounting to nearly $52 billion. The project involves a 40,000-mile system of interstate highways that would connect 42 state capitals and link 90% of all cities with populations of 50,000 or more...
...growing so fast (12,768 passengers in 1955 v. 444 in 1950) that the Civil Aeronautics Board wants more competition for Pan American, now the only U.S. flying round-the-world line. A CAB examiner recommended that Trans World Airlines get a link into Manila, where it can connect up with Northwest Airlines to form a global...
...trucks, Gruen's planners suggested a subsurface road network linked to the beltway. Recessed drives would connect with cellar entrances for deliveries. The taller, high-value buildings in the area today would remain, with new skyscrapers added. Disappearing to make way for the beltway and garages, whose roofs would serve as heliports, would be shabby, less desirable structures...
...clippings, organized to show how one year's policy in a certain area is formed, included reports of Congressional hearings, budget figures, and commentary to connect the material. Leach asked Air Force officials to publish a book using this material, since both he and the War College could use it for instructional purposes. The Air Force obliged and reproduced the collection in a 600-page volume. Leach received 12 of the books, partially solving his problem. Students filled the remaining gap by selecting and mimeographing readings for each week...
...settled in a new bed half a mile to the east. This confronted the civic fathers of Onawa, Iowa (pop. 3,498) and Decatur, Neb. (pop. 808) with an embarrassing problem. After 25 years of pleading, Congress had finally authorized a toll bridge spanning the mile-wide Missouri to connect the two towns. But should they build the bridge over the old or new bed? The Army engineers said to build over the old channel, since the Missouri would probably wander back; if it did not, the engineers "would take the necessary corrective action...