Document D Source: Saturday Evening Post, October 1956. On last June twenty-ninth, with President Eisenhower's signature, one of the most astounding pieces of legislation in history quietly became a law. Public Law 627 represents such a monumental conception of national public works that its accomplishment will literally dwarf any previous work of man.... That new title-the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways-tells the story of the road network, which will receive the major portion of the brave new effort to get this country out of its national traffic jam. The Interstate System... is the 40,000-mile network of existing roads which comprise our trunkline highways; it connects 209 of the 237 cities having a population of 50,000 or more and serves the country's principal industrial and defense areas.

Document D Source: Saturday Evening Post, October 1956. On last June twenty-ninth, with President Eisenhower's signature, one of the most astounding pieces of legislation in history quietly became a law. Public Law 627 represents such a monumental conception of national public works that its accomplishment will literally dwarf any previous work of man.... That new title-the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways-tells the story of the road network, which will receive the major portion of the brave new effort to get this country out of its national traffic jam. The Interstate System... is the 40,000-mile network of existing roads which comprise our trunkline highways; it connects 209 of the 237 cities having a population of 50,000 or more and serves the country's principal industrial and defense areas.