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According to a government report there ia a aimple explanation (one even printers can understand) for the increasing traffic on the nation’s highway — more people have more cars. A recordbreaking 44,670,588 vehicles were registered last year, 36,292,708 of them private automobiles. The number of private cars, of which 4,838,342 were new ones, was 9.2 per cent Jiigher than the 1948 total. It is .estmiated that there were 16,677,000^000 miles of travel" on rural roads during
* 7.2 per cent increase over the same month last year.
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