Transport: Road Report

Congress had an admiring eye cocked on Adolf Hitler's great new system of Reich auto roads (TIME, Feb. 27) when last June it directed the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads to investigate the feasibility of building a system of toll superhighways for the U. S. But deliberate, slow-spoken Chief Thomas Harris MacDonald has had his eye on transportation realities, with which he has composedly rubbed elbows since he was appointed to his job 20 years ago in the WTilson Administration. This week, he gave his answer in a carefully documented 212-page report....

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