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Presents world news briefs as of November 1941. Number of persons killed in the first year of the operation of the Pennsylvania Turnpike; Reason of allied prisoners of war in Germany for sending parcels of food to relatives in occupied countries; Appointment of Louis B. Neumiller as president of the Caterpillar Tractor Co.

This section offers news briefs related to business in the U.S. in January 1954. The Lake County zoning board granted a zoning variance to Philip D. Armour to allow the sale of his 160-acre property at Tangley Oaks to United Educators Inc. in Lake Bluff, Illinois. The Nashville daily papers the "Tennessean" and the "Banner" have discontinued publication of television and radio program logs in Tennessee. The state of Ohio granted its highway officials 135,000 U.S. dollars to make preliminary surveys for a second turnpike from Cincinnati to Conneaut.

The article discusses the construction of the Hollywood Parkway, a freeway project in Los Angeles, California, which has already cost 31 million U.S. dollars.

The article reports on the significance of using the 160-mile superhighway Pennsylvania Turnpike in producing 60% of its revenue to pay bond interest and maintenance costs in Pennsylvania. It states that truck toll scale ranges from three U.S. dollars to ten U.S. dollars depending on the truck's weight and passenger cars pay 1.50 U.S. dollars a trip and 2.25 U.S. dollars round trip. It notes the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's effort to encourage turnpike truck use for safety and convenience.

The article focuses on the changes that will be included in the Interstate Highway Program in the U.S. and its effect on the U.S. automobile industry. Edward H. Holmes, director of planning for the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, states that the ratio of contribution by the U.S. Federal government to the Program could reduce by upto 2 dollars. The changes are stated to offer both challenge and opportunity to companies such as General Motors Corp, Chrysler Group LLC, and Ford Motor Co.

The article presents information on the industrial development program of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during 1951. It is stated that the city has a favorable location as a marketing and distribution center, due to which businessmen and civic leaders came up with an 80-million dollar highway-industry-railroad moving program. The plan provides for at least nine new industrial districts throughout the city, along with an integrated system of express highways to serve them.

The article discusses the establishment of two belt expressways to ease traffic in Boston, Massachusetts which has faced a growing population of automobiles for 15 years. It notes that the peninsula of Boston proper is needed to be encircled by the expressways. It mentions that Democratic governors are being prevented by Republican legislators from getting credit for minimizing traffic chaos.

The article focuses on the near completion of U.S. National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. It notes that as Americans are insisting for personal free-choice transportation of a private automobile, public works is creating intricate interstate highway system supported by federally aided primary and secondary roads. It says that U.S. private vehicles will reach up to 114 million by 1975, and interstate highways due to completion in 1972, are designed to meet the need of this number.

The article reports on issues related to the Route 128 highway in New England in 1955. In 1936, the Massachusetts Department of Public Works started renovating the highway. Such highway is created to curve around Bosston, Massachusetts. The article also offers information on the impact of expressways on industrial and commercial land.

The article reports that U.S. executives living in London, England, find the city to have a blend of environmental amenity and sophisticated urban living. London has several historic monuments and buildings, guarded by government and private societies. The center of the city has parks and squares which provide the city with spaciousness and grace. The city has been prevented from expressways and skyscrapers, and has been keeping a low architectural profile.

The article describes the awakening of Germany after the end of World War II. It states that Germany is still considering a network of Autobahnen Im Dunkeln, or highways in the dark which are huge subterranean pipelines that carry industrial waste and scrap to the coast. It notes that after the end of World War II, Germany is still divided and leaders are often saying that the enormities of the Nazi past cannot be expiated.

The article explores some of the special problems that owners of superhighway restaurants in the U.S. have to face. In the case of the Howard Johnson restaurant, located along the New Jersey Turnpike, one problem was that there could be no high orange roofs, which is the hallmark of the restaurant. Another problem has been the millions of motorists that would use the turnpike. Other problems include the fact that drivers in a hurry have little interest in seeing the sights and that the turnpike market shifts with the seasons.

Presents information relating to the U.S. 81 road. Reference to the American superhighway as a monumental inadvertent art form; Description of the features of the interstate road; Information about the architectural design of Route 81; View that the presence of Virginia campus animates and dignifies the entire territory of Route 81; Details of the landscape of Route 81.

The article focuses on the opposition regarding the proposed urban freeways for Baltimore, Maryland that will tie Interstate routes 70, 83, and 95 together near the central business district and will be designed by the Urban Design Concept Associates (UDCA). It mentions the disagreement of conservationists on the Interstate 83 section, stressing that it would destroy the Fells Point area where 19th Century clipper ships were built. The National Park Service also opposes the Interstate 95 route.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Spring will be a little late this year" in the March 25, 1967 issue, "Herman Kahn's thinkable future" in the March 11, 1967 issue, and "The war over urban expressways" in the March 11, 1967 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article about restroom access and interstate highways in the U.S. in the February 15, 1965 issue.

The article discusses U.S. explosives producer Atlas Powder Co., a possible beneficiary from the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.

This section offers news briefs on the financial sector in the U.S. which includes the loss of auto liability insurance companies, a town in Mississippi and in Tennessee failed to sold its revenue bonds, and the commission paid by Ohio's turnpike commission.

The article offers U.S. regional news briefs including the cutting of the navigation season by Army Engineers to address the water shortage on the Missouri River, the submission of a redevelopment plan involving slum clearance and prevention program for St. Louis to the Federal Housing & Home Finance Agency, and the agreement by governors of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio to jointly finance a survey for a St. Louis-Cincinnati turnpike.

The article offers information on various topics including turnpike-keeper Mister Weller, "Don Juan," by Lord Baron, and two pictures by Murillo in the Bethlehem church. It features Mister Weller involving his experience in life, his occupation as a turnpike-keeper, and emancipation of highways for modern civilization. It states the destruction of the two pictures made by Murillo due to disgraceful squabble and riot of the monks in Jerusalem.