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In 1939, the Texas Highway Department renumbered all highways that ran concurrently with U.S. Highways. Sections of state highways that were separated by a concurrency with a US Highway were renumbered, and all suffixed routes (that did not become part of other highways or other state highways) were renumbered.
War Highways were designated in the U.S. state of Texas by the Texas State Highway Commission in 1942 and 1943 to serve military camps and military bases during World War II. All have since been cancelled or redesignated.
6/US 75 to Texas City; extended to Dayton in 1932 and to Cleveland two months later (which would delete 132), but this extension was dropped due to a lack of funding (restored as 321 in 1939) and instead extended to Livingston over 132; rerouted around Liberty in 1967; extended to IH 45 in 1984; rerouted in Baytown over Loop 201 in 1996 (old ...
During World War II, Dallas served as a manufacturing center for the war effort. By 1940, the population of the city of Dallas had reached 294,734. In 1942, the Ford Motor plant in Dallas converted to war-time production, producing only jeeps and military trucks. In 1943 the city began war rationing, with 376,085 ration books distributed.
In the United States, the Hillbilly Highway is the out-migration of Appalachians from the Appalachian Highlands region to industrial cities in northern, midwestern, and western states, primarily in the years following World War II in search of better-paying industrial jobs and higher standards of living.
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 Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 covered federal spending on highways "after the war", which (after World War II ended in August 1945) meant spending in fiscal 1946, 1947, and 1948. Among the act's provisions were: [8] Creation of a 40,000-mile (64,000 km) National System of Interstate Highways to connect major cities and industrial areas.
US 62 begins at the Mexican border in El Paso and travels east through far west Texas to the New Mexico state line east of Guadalupe Mountains National Park. It reenters Texas west of Seminole and travels northeast through the southern Texas Panhandle to the Oklahoma state line northeast of Childress. US 66: 177.1 [6] 285.0 New Mexico state ...