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Rh CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

All of these facts indicate that the indirect employment that could be afforded by construction of the proposed system would be widely distributed throughout the entire country. In large part, moreover, this indirect employment would be very quickly generated.

In addition to the benefits to be afforded by the provision of much needed modern highway facilities, the Committee concludes that construction of the recommended interregional system will make possible the productive utilization of a substantial part of the manpower and industrial capacity likely to be available in the post-war period. It also desires to give special emphasis to the importance of complete readiness for an immediate post-war initiation of construction as a condition precedent to the ultimate success of any comprehensive public works plan which looks toward the stabilization of the national income and the preservation of prosperity in the post-war period. The magnitude of, the problems involved in the coordination of interregional-highway-system construction as an integral part of that plan, in the advance planning and design of component high-priority projects, and in the acquisition of required rights-of-way, serve to emphasize the need for their prompt and thorough consideration.

The Committee, therefore, strongly recommends the early provision of all required legal authorizations and statutory sanctions, to permit all necessary administrative preparatory measures to follow in swift succession, and to insure a prompt beginning of construction on the system at the end of the war and prosecution of such construction at the rate indicated by an annual expenditure of $750,000,000. 93800—44——10