{"id":4720,"date":"2021-11-19T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T03:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2021-11-19T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T03:48:31","slug":"san-francisco-call-8-january-1919-billion-will-be-spent-on-u-s-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/san-francisco-call-8-january-1919-billion-will-be-spent-on-u-s-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"BILLION WILL BE SPENT ON U.S. HIGHWAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>San Francisco Call, 8 January 1919<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.\u2014Road building on an extensive<br \/>\nscale is expected by government officials this year.<br \/>\nEstimates by the Bureau of Public Roads and Rural Engineering<br \/>\nindicate a minimum expenditure on highways of $300,000,000.<br \/>\nDeferred construction and the improvement of existing roads<br \/>\nso that greater use may be made of the parcel post system are<br \/>\nexpected to swell the total expenditures in the postwar period<br \/>\nto $1,000,000,000.<br \/>\nDefinite estimates of amounts to be spent this year include<br \/>\nthe following:<br \/>\nIowa. $15,574,000;<br \/>\nTexas, $20,000,000;<br \/>\nNebraska, $1,657,069;<br \/>\nNorth Dakota, $3,000,000;<br \/>\nWyoming, $653,000;<br \/>\nColorado, $3,900,000;<br \/>\nCalifornia, $20,000,000;<br \/>\nArizona, $900,000;<br \/>\nNevada, $1,148,849.80;<br \/>\nIdaho, $1,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>(-> $100 in 1919 is worth $1,598.78 in 2021)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Call, 8 January 1919 By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.\u2014Road building on an extensive scale is expected by government officials this year. Estimates by the Bureau of Public Roads and Rural Engineering indicate a minimum expenditure on highways of $300,000,000. Deferred construction and the improvement of existing roads so that greater use may &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/san-francisco-call-8-january-1919-billion-will-be-spent-on-u-s-highways\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,17],"tags":[3737,325,3739,3738,3736,3740],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4720","6":"format-standard","7":"category-california-history","8":"category-california-newspaper-archive","9":"category-thinking-about","10":"post_tag-3737","11":"post_tag-california","12":"post_tag-construction","13":"post_tag-highways","14":"post_tag-infrastructure","15":"post_tag-roads"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}