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... cars . The major cities of the nation have already allocated 28 per- cent of their space for parking , and now Federal highway planners are talking of a post - Vietnam program to spread $ 7,000,000,000 worth of high - rise parking ...
... cars . The major cities of the nation have already allocated 28 per- cent of their space for parking , and now Federal highway planners are talking of a post - Vietnam program to spread $ 7,000,000,000 worth of high - rise parking ...
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... cars . James M. Roche , chairman of General Motors , is quoted in Fortune Mag- azine as saying , " I don't feel it's a crisis . We've talked about conges- tion for a long time . Back in 1929 people said that no more cars would be sold ...
... cars . James M. Roche , chairman of General Motors , is quoted in Fortune Mag- azine as saying , " I don't feel it's a crisis . We've talked about conges- tion for a long time . Back in 1929 people said that no more cars would be sold ...
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... cars that now exist would have been considered overimaginative . Within only a third of that span- 20 years - the ... cars and trucks . In computing truck costs , the highway department assumed that trucks travel at the same rate of ...
... cars that now exist would have been considered overimaginative . Within only a third of that span- 20 years - the ... cars and trucks . In computing truck costs , the highway department assumed that trucks travel at the same rate of ...
Contents
An Introduction | 9 |
Rivers Dams and Floods | 27 |
Water Pollution and the Great Water Shortage | 49 |
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