1952-01-01
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This is an anniversary year in the history of highway landscape development. It was just two decades ago--in 1932--that the Federal Government first demonstrated that it was possible to conserve and protect the present and future values of public investment in modern arterial highways. This historic demonstration was the opening of the Mount Vernon
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United States. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Public Roads
1951-12-01
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On the basis of preliminary figures, motor-vehicle travel on main and local roads for the country as a whole was higher during December 1951 than in any previous December.
No. 11, December 1951: Observed settlements of highway structures due to consolidation of alluvial clay, by E. S. Barber; Inter-American Highway Report-Part II, Central America and Panama, a motion picture; Traffic trends on rural roads in 1950, by Thomas B. Dimmick
No. 10, October 1951: Appraisal of soil and terrain conditions for pat of the Natchez Trace Parkway, by Preston C. Smith; Inter-American Highway Report-Part I, Mexico, a motion picture; Freezing and thawing tests of concrete containing Oregon and Washington aggregates, by A. G. Timms
No. 9, August 1951: An improved triaxial compression cell for testing bituminous paving mixtures, by C. A. Carpenter, J. F. Goode, and R.A. Peck; Highway control sections: their establishment and use, by Gordon D. Gronberg; Design problems in the use of local aggregates for bituminous surfaces, by J.T. Pauls and Harry M. Rex; Title pages for volume
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No. 8, June 1951: The gasoline tax in relation to automobile operation and highway costs, by E. M. Cope and L. L. Liston; Volume changes in sand-gravel concrete, by F.H. Jackson and A.G. Timms; New Publication: A Factual Discussion of Motortruck Operation, Regulation, and Taxation; Highway Soil Engineering: a motion picture
No. 7, April 1951: A procedure for determining the annual cost of a section of rural highway, by Harold W. Hansen; New Publications: The Mathematical Theory of Vibration in Suspension Bridges; Selected Bibliography on Highway Finance; Highway Statistics, 1949; Methods for the determination of soft pieces in aggregate, by D. O. Woolf
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