U.S. Construction Industry "Its Return to Glory"

Anthony R Blanks Jr.

Ashford BUS 620 (NAC1432A)

Adebowale Onatolu

08/18/2014

US Construction Industry "Its Return to Glory"

During the late part of the 1950's the United States construction industry had begun to revitalize itself. The country was given a gift by its President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the form of legislation which would produce more jobs for the nation than it had seen after the Great Depression. President D. Eisenhower signed into law the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. According to the Department of Transportation (2014) "the Interstate System has been a part of our culture-as construction projects, as transportation in our daily lives, and as an integral part of the American way of...