To: Maurice Winn who wrote (88376 ) 3/24/2012 9:34:30 PM From: arun gera 2 Recommendations Respond to Why create a fairy tale? The success of Ferraris, fuels, and freeways - all the three had significant government hand in their development...en.wikipedia.org Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers ' war effort. Enzo Ferrari's division was small enough to be unaffected by this. Because he was prohibited by contract from racing for four years, the Scuderia briefly became Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari , which ostensibly produced machine tools and aircraft accessories. Also known as SEFAC (Scuderia Enzo Ferrari Auto Corse), Ferrari did in fact produce one race car, the Tipo 815 , in the non-competition period. It was the first actual Ferrari car (it debuted at the 1940 Mille Miglia ), but due to World War II it saw little competition. In 1943 the Ferrari factory moved to Maranello, where it has remained ever since. The factory was bombed by the Allies in 1944 and rebuilt in 1946, after the war ended, and included a works for road car production. Until Il Commendatore Barchetta 212/225125 S , powered by a 1.5 L V12 engine ; Enzo Ferrari reluctantly built and sold his automobiles to fund Scuderia Ferrari . [2] automobile manufacturers and championed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower , who was influenced by his experiences as a young Army officer crossing the country in the 1919 Army Convoy on the Lincoln Highway , the first road across America.Bureau of Public Roads asked the Army to provide a list of roads it considered necessary for national defense. This resulted in the Pershing Map . [4] Later that decade, highways such as the New York parkway system were built as part of local or state highway systems.United States Numbered Highway system. By the late 1930s, planning had expanded to a system of new superhighways.Franklin D. Roosevelt gave Thomas MacDonald , chief at the Bureau of Public Roads, a hand-drawn map of the U.S. marked with eight superhighway corridors for study. [4] In 1939, Bureau of Public Roads Division of Information chief Herbert S. Fairbank wrote a report entitled Toll Roads and Free Roads , "the first formal description of what became the interstate highway system," and in 1944 the similarly themed Interregional Highways . [5] [6] Autobahn network as a necessary component of a national defense system while he was serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II . [7] He recognized that the proposed system would also provide key ground transport routes for military supplies and troop deployments in case of an emergency or foreign invasionGeneral Location of National System of Interstate Highways , informally known as the Yellow Book , mapped out what became the Interstate System. [8] Assisting in the planning was Charles Erwin Wilson , who was still head of General Motors when President Eisenhower selected him as Secretary of Defense in January 1953.
