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Blackstone Boulevard. Ohio's project was inspired largely by the phenomenal success of the prewar Pennsylvania Turnpike. Yet the state legislature voted against it in 1947, approved it in 1949 by a single Senate vote only after bitter debate...
...details the higher levels of productivity that are the hope of the rest of the world. From 1939 to 1954, the number of U.S. farm workers declined from 11.5 to 8.5 million-yet productivity of U.S. acreage has increased by 47%. Corn yields have increased from the prewar 1.6 tons per hectare (2,471 acres) to an average 2.4 tons...
...copper, and to date the only completely satisfactory substitute is silver, costing 90? an ounce. Copper is essential to automobile production; each new car takes an average 24 Ibs., or a total of 10% of all the copper used in the nation. U.S. builders are putting more copper than prewar into home construction, and the average $20,000 copper-wired, copper-piped house uses about $400 worth of the metal...
JAPANESE TRADE CARTELS, broken up by the Allied occupation authorities, are fast coming back. Mitsui Bussan, Japan's biggest prewar trading firm, has regrouped itself from its two biggest post-occupation splinter companies, now controls 18% (about $450 million) of Japan's total foreign trade-about the same as the prewar Mitsui Bussan...
...Motors in Z933 produced the first modern, lightweight diesel. It took World War II to ignite the real development of diesel power. G.M. turned out diesel trucks, tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million a year in fuel and maintenance. Fifty Class I railroads today are without a single steam engine...