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Long title: An act to amend and supplement the Federal Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1956, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide additional revenue from taxes on motor fuel, tires, and trucks and buses; and for other purposes.
The Pershing Map FDR's hand-drawn map from 1938. The United States government's efforts to construct a national network of highways began on an ad hoc basis with the passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided $75 million over a five-year period for matching funds to the states for the construction and improvement of highways. [8]
The economy is growing more than expected, and a tax cut for big investments has led to several major investments in oil, gas, and mining being launched or planned.
Though, by 1929, Argentina was already home to over 400,000 vehicles, [26] [27] virtually all long-distance travel was done on the nation's vast railways. Argentina, then, lacked a road-building program until 1932, when the National Highway Directorate was established.
Paved highways in the United States Numbered Highway System (for example, U.S. Highway 53) can vary from two lanes wide (one lane each direction), shoulderless, roads with no access control, to multi-lane high-speed controlled-access highway, such as the Interstate Highways. These roads are usually distinguished by being important, but not ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina will weaken its peso over 50% to 800 per dollar, cut energy subsidies, and cancel tenders of public works, new Economy Minister Luis Caputo said on Tuesday ...
It is also the world's most expensive mega-project, [30] as the entirety of the Interstate Highway System was estimated to cost $27 billion in 1955 (equivalent to $240 billion in 2023 [31]). [32] China's highway network is the second most extensive in the world, with a total length of about 3,573,000 kilometres (2,220,000 mi).
Argentina's Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa may be about to pull off a political miracle: win a presidential election despite being at the helm of the country's worst economic crisis in ...