Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE CROSSROADS OF TI-IE NATION ANY reasons are apparent for calling St. Louis The Crossroads of raw the Nation. Traffic and travel from every corner of the United 4 -1 States pass through our city by railroad, highway, river, and air. Nineteen trunk-line railroads make St. Louis the second largest railroad terminal in the country. It is said that freight and passenger trains cross the bridges over the Mississippi River into St. Louis at the average of one every five minutes. Six mighty bridges span the Mississippi at St. Louis. The oldest of these is the Eads Bridge. The most traveled is the Municipal Bridge, over which an almost constant stream of trucks and automobiles flows. Other bridges are the Lewis and Clark Bridge, the McKinley Bridge, and the Chain of Rocks Bridge. Broad highways, over which passenger busses and numerous freight trucks pass, enter the city from all directions. Within the city is the recently completed Express Highway, built to expedite the movement of traffic between western and downtown St. Louis. Although the river traffic is not nearly so great as it formerly was, St. Louis still remains the main port of the great inland waterways system. Cargoes of freight pass through the city for direct barge shipment or combined barge and rail shipment. St. Louis is a major link in transcontinental air transportation. The St. Louis Municipal Airport at Lambert Field is one of the largest and finest in the nation. It has received from the United States Department of Commerce the ATA rating, the highest awarded to any airport. The airport was built at the expenditure of two million dollars of public funds plus a private invest- ment of about two million dollars. At Lambert Field one sees every kind of aircraft from mail planes to huge passenger planes which operate on day and night schedules. St. Louis is truly The Crossroads of the Nation. ANNA LOUISE HANISH nr - T , 1 ffm b .1 Eighleen

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