Hearings Before the Committee on Roads, House of Representatives ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - Roads |
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... things around which center the basis for collecting funds for Federal appropriations . The items used for comparison are basic wealth , national wealth , population , and internal revenue . 99 The first 15 States in basic wealth are ...
... things around which center the basis for collecting funds for Federal appropriations . The items used for comparison are basic wealth , national wealth , population , and internal revenue . 99 The first 15 States in basic wealth are ...
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... things there are bills to be paid . The highway rolling stock cost billions and added billions are spent in their operation . To preserve the capital stock invested means an improved roadbed . In our travels we would not know State ...
... things there are bills to be paid . The highway rolling stock cost billions and added billions are spent in their operation . To preserve the capital stock invested means an improved roadbed . In our travels we would not know State ...
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... thing that made it possible to have that con- tinuation was the hang over from 1921. In that year there was an appropriation of $ 100,000,000 , and it has continued from year to year . Therefore , we simply increased this fund by an ...
... thing that made it possible to have that con- tinuation was the hang over from 1921. In that year there was an appropriation of $ 100,000,000 , and it has continued from year to year . Therefore , we simply increased this fund by an ...
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... thing that is under the pavement , or the subgrade . To illustrate , you can take a piece of paper and put it in your hand like this [ indicating ] and if it has no support in the middle , and you put a weight right here [ indicating ] ...
... thing that is under the pavement , or the subgrade . To illustrate , you can take a piece of paper and put it in your hand like this [ indicating ] and if it has no support in the middle , and you put a weight right here [ indicating ] ...
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... things : First , section 1 of the bill authorizes the use of Federal aid up to 100 per cent of any individual project in the nine public - land States located on ( a ) an interstate route , and ( b ) an intercounty route which forms a ...
... things : First , section 1 of the bill authorizes the use of Federal aid up to 100 per cent of any individual project in the nine public - land States located on ( a ) an interstate route , and ( b ) an intercounty route which forms a ...
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96 inches Alaska ALMON American Automobile Association amount appropriations authorization axle basic wealth Beardstown bill bituminous BRAND bridges building Bureau of Public carrier cent CHAIRMAN Colonel GREELEY COLTON common carrier concrete Congress construction cooperation cost expended expenditure February 16 Federal aid Federal funds Federal Government Federal-aid system feet fiscal forest highway gasoline taxes graded HALDEMAN highway commission highway department Highway Officials highway system HOLADAY HUDSPETH Illinois improved inch width income interstate interstate highways Iowa macadam MACDONALD maintenance markers MARKHAM ment mileage miles motor truck motor vehicles national forests North Carolina Ohio operation paved pavement PEERY Pennsylvania pounds gross pounds per inch projects Public Roads question railroads RATHBONE regulate ROBSION routes rural Secretary of Agriculture South South Dakota SPROUL statement subgrade tion traffic transportation TRUMBOWER United Virginia Weight restrictions WHITE width of tire York
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Page 82 - One-third in the ratio which the area of each State bears to the total area of all the States; one-third in the ratio which the population of each State bears to the total population of all the States...
Page 7 - Jones (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. . The committee will please come to order. We have met this morning for the purpose of...
Page 6 - Not more than 60 per centum of all Federal aid allotted to any State shall be expended upon the primary or interstate highways until provision has been made for the improvement of the entire system of such highways : Provided, That with the approval of any State highway department the Secretary of Agriculture may approve the expenditure of more than 60 per centum of the Federal aid apportioned to such State upon the primary or interstate highways in such State.
Page 40 - July 11, 1916, and of section 23 of the Federal highway act of November 9, 1921, and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligations created...
Page 29 - Now, if I can answer any questions, I will be glad to do so. Mr.
Page 5 - States; one-third in the ratio which the population of each State bears to the total population of all the States, as shown by the latest available Federal census; one-third...
Page 5 - Thus, the provision of the Washington statute is a regulation, not of the use of its own highways, but of interstate commerce. Its effect upon such commerce is not merely to burden but to obstruct it. Such state action is forbidden by the Commerce Clause. It also defeats the purpose of Congress expressed in the legislation giving federal aid for the construction of interstate highways.
Page 69 - Chairman, because we published that information in the report of the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads for the fiscal year 1925.
Page 2 - Office and Post Roads, to make inquiry into the subject of federal aid in the construction of post roads and report at the earliest practicable date...