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Pork in Big Barrels
Mowbray, A. Q. | November 18, 1968 issue

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In 1909, total sales of passenger cars in the United States were just under 125,000. Seven years later, annual sales of passenger cars exceeded 1.5 million and the demand to build more roads was in full voice. It was in this year, 1916, that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed the first Federal Aid Road Act, putting the federal government into the road-building business in a big way. The federal government, on the understanding that the states would bear the cost of maintenance once the road was built, provided that half the funds used for road building in the states would supply this act. The act also stipulated that the federal contribution was not to exceed $10,000 per mile.

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ROADS -- United States; AUTOMOBILES; ROADS -- Finance -- Law & legislation; HIGHWAY law; WILSON, Woodrow, 1856-1924; FEDERAL government; UNITED States
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