Fisher's idea that the auto industry and private contributions could pay for the highway was soon abandoned, and, while the LHA did help finance a few short sections of roadway, LHA founders ' and members ' contributions were used primarily for publicity and promotion to encourage travel on the Highway and to lobby officials at all levels to support its construction by governments.

In preparation for the October 31 dedication ceremonies, the LHA asked clergy across the United States to discuss Abraham Lincoln in their sermons on November 2, the Sunday nearest the dedication.

On July 1, 1913, the Lincoln Highway Association ( LHA ) was established " to procure the establishment of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, open to lawful traffic of all description without toll charges.

" The first goal of the LHA was to build the rock highway from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco.

" Henry Joy was named as the LHA president, so that although Carl Fisher remained a driving force in furthering the goals of the association, it would not appear as his one-man crusade.

One of Fisher's first acts after opening LHA headquarters was to hire F. T. Grenell, city editor of the Detroit Free Press, as a part-time publicity man.

The first Seedling Mile was built in 1914 west of Malta, Illinois, but after years of experience the LHA began a design effort for a road section that could handle traffic 20 years into the future.

Increasing government support for roadbuilding was making the old road associations less important, but the LHA still had significant influence.

The LHA preferred numbering the existing named routes, but in the end the LHA was more interested in the larger plan for roadbuilding than they were in officially retaining the name.

The Lincoln Highway was not yet the imagined " rock highway " from coast to coast when the LHA ceased operating, as there were many segments that had still not been paved.

* Near Wamsutter, Wyoming, on the Continental Divide along old U. S. 30, a monument was erected in 1938 to Henry B. Joy, the first president of the LHA, with an inscription describing Joy as one " who saw realized the dream of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The group was met by LHA chapters, car clubs, local tourism groups and community leaders throughout the route.

The LHA is a national organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States of America, which was routed through Franklin Grove.

LHA was founded in New Orleans in 1889.

The LHA was founded in 1940 to help people made homeless by the Blitz.

It was then renamed to LHA to avoid conflicting with the then-new MS-DOS 5. 0 < tt > LH </ tt > (" load high ") command.

LHA has been ported to many operating systems, and is still the main archiving format used on the Amiga computer, although it was briefly replaced by LZX in the mid 90s.

This was due to Aminet, the world's largest archive of Amiga related software and files, standardising on Stefan Boberg's implementation of LHA for the Amiga.

" The leaders of the LHA were masters of the public relations, and used publicity and propaganda as even more important materials.

As seen from above the Earth's geographic pole | north pole, a star's local hour angle ( LHA ) for an observer near New York ( red ).

In celestial navigation, the convention is to measure in degrees westward from the prime meridian ( Greenwich hour angle, GHA ), the local meridian ( local hour angle, LHA ) or the first point of Aries ( sidereal hour angle, SHA ).

where LHA < sub > object </ sub > is the local hour angle of the object, LST is the local sidereal time, is the object's right ascension, GST is Greenwich sidereal time and is the observer's longitude ( positive west from the prime meridian ).

The LHA holds yearly national conferences, and is governed by a board of directors with representatives from each Lincoln Highway state.

The LHA needed to determine the best and most direct route from New York City to San Francisco.

To scout a western route, the LHA's " Trail-Blazer " tour set out from Indianapolis in 17 cars and 2 trucks on July 1, 1913, the same day LHA headquarters were established in Detroit.

Their American teacher told them about Abraham Lincoln and the highway to be built in his honor, and they took up a collection and sent it to the LHA with the note, " Fourteen pennies from Anvik Esquimaux children for the Lincoln Highway.

The program featured interviews with a number of LHA officials, and a message from Carl Fisher read by an announcer in Detroit.

The tour group, led by Bob Lichty and Rosemary Rubin of LHA and sponsored by Lincoln-Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company, set out from Times Square on August 17, 2003.

LCAC are transported in and operate from all the U. S. Navy's amphibious-well deck ships including LHA, LHD, LSD and LPD.

The Lincoln Highway Association awarded Sebak its first " Gregory M. Franzwa Award " at the 2009 LHA conference.

The Lincoln Highway Association ( LHA ) maintains a national tourist center in Franklin Grove, in a historic building built by Harry Isaac Lincoln, a cousin of Abraham Lincoln.

The LHA has 1000 members located in 40 states and Washington D. C., and in Canada, England, Germany, Luxembourg, Scotland and Norway.

LHA leaders, particularly Packard president Henry Joy, wanted as straight a route as possible and the route announced did not necessarily follow the course of the Trail-Blazers.

The LHA dedicated the route on October 31, 1913.

" The LHA distributed pictures of the coins and the accompanying letter, and both were widely reprinted.

The LHA then distributed copies of many of the sermons, such as one by Cardinal Gibbons who, with the dedication fresh in mind, had written that " such a highway will be a most fitting and useful monument to the memory of Lincoln.

The LHA used the convoy's difficulties to show the need for better main highways, building popular support for both local and federal funding.

According to the 1924 LHA Guide the Seedling Miles were intended " to demonstrate the desirability of this permanent type of road construction " to rally public support for government-backed construction.

With federal, state, and county funds, and a US $ 130, 000 contribution by United States Rubber Company president and LHA founder C. B.

He convinced the Soviet government that borzoi were a valuable asset to the hunters who supported the fur industry and henceforth, their breeding was officially regulated.

The Spanish Civil War convinced Udet ( along with limited output from the German munitions industry ) that wastage was not acceptable in munition terms.

As such, one requirement for VLB to gain industry adoption was that it had to be a minimal burden for manufactures to implement, in terms of board re-design and component costs-otherwise manufacturers would not have been convinced to change from their own proprietary solutions.

Whoever considers the Peruvian empire, where arts and industry flourished under one of the wisest systems of government, which was founded by a stranger, must have very sanguine expectations of the southern continent, from whence it is more than probable Mango Capac, the first Inca, was derived, and must be convinced that the country, from whence Mango Capac introduced the comforts of civilized life, cannot fail of amply rewarding the fortunate people who shall bestow letters instead of quippos ( quipus ), and iron in place of more awkward substitutes.

After helping McLean make the successful design, Tantlinger convinced him to give the patented designs to the industry ; this began international standardization of shipping containers.

However, Mondt discovered a solution that would completely transform the industry, as he convinced Lewis and Sandow to implement a new form of wrestling that combined features of boxing, Greco-Roman, freestyle, lumber-camp fighting, and theater into what he deemed “ Slam Bang Western-Style Wrestling .” He then formed a promotion with wrestler Ed Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow.

Of note was the inclusion of " Poet Laureate II ", a song exceeding seven minutes in length and lacking a chorus, with several changes of beat throughout ; the track was frequently singled out as one of the strongest in Canibus ' career and the album as a whole convinced listeners and the industry alike that the rapper had not lost his potential.

Elements within the Soviet space industry convinced Leonid Brezhnev that the Shuttle was a single-orbit weapon that would be launched from Vandenberg, maneuver to avoid existing anti-ballistic missile sites, bomb Moscow in a first strike, and then land.

Scientists who worked personally with him were convinced of his capability and industry.

The threat of the earlier march had convinced President Roosevelt to establish the Committee on Fair Employment Practice and ban discriminatory hiring in the defense industry.

In his home state, he was convinced industry and railroad interests had too much sway over the party.

Also his experiences during the Nye Committee hearings on the munitions industry, of which he was the Senate co-sponsor, convinced him that entry into World War I had been a disastrous error.

Fei ’ s analysis of the village economy had convinced him that rural industry was needed to supplement agricultural earnings.

By the 1990s, they convinced the Puerto Rican government to take a stand against the mining industry, on behalf of conservation.

* Industry resistance to change – trade journals and industry leaders have spoken against a new technology or product but some organizations are trying to implement it anyway because they are convinced it is technically superior.

Since then, Newkirk has led campaigns to stop the use of animals in crash tests, has convinced companies to stop testing cosmetics on animals and to press for higher welfare standards from the meat industry, and has organized undercover investigations that have led to government sanctions against companies, universities, and entertainers who use animals.

Grover Bell was killed in a plane crash the following year, and Lawrence vowed to quit aviation for good ; however, he went to work for the Glenn L. Martin Company after friends convinced him to return to the industry.

He was convinced Florida's climate would prove ideal for raising cattle ( as the key to success in that industry is growing grass ).

In May 1918 at the age of 66, he bought the Isle of Lewis for £ 167, 000, convinced that he could resurrect the fishing industry.

In a series of flashbacks, we see this happen: Reverend Salvation is convinced by Mrs. Mister to make sermons on World War I that are convenient to the profits of the steel industry, Editor Daily of the Steeltown News is bullied into running stories against union organizer Larry Foreman and giving Mr. Mister's feckless son Junior Mister a correspondence job in Honolulu.

However, it was only after a year working as a stock analyst for Harris Associates, seeing the fund industry and potential competitors up close, that he was convinced that the opportunity was there.

He got his wife involved in managing a barbecue restaurant ; upon seeing its success, he became convinced of the financial potential of the fast food industry.

It was Harley Earl's formidable Art & Colour Section at General Motors that convinced the industry of the importance of styling.

One such lodger was James Hartness, who was to become a machine-tool entrepreneur in Springfield, Vermont and who befriended Fellows and ultimately convinced him to follow career opportunities in the Springfield machine-tool industry with his firm, the Jones & Lamson Machine Company ( J & L ).