Word: asphalted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same tearing roar of Meyer-Drake Offenhauser racing engines will racket above the oil-slick brick and asphalt. Once more, when the green flag drops, the wheeled buckets of power will whisk past the pace car into the first laps of the most popular sport spectacle in the U.S. Memorial Day will have come back to the Midwest with the 39th running of America's car-racing classic: the Indianapolis 500. The cars will be faster than ever this year, the drivers as daring, and the spectators will get their thrills. But for the first time in the memory...
Congratulations to the Department of Buildings and Brounds, which has at last found a perfect substitute for the rather untidy grass which has for so long disfigured Harvard Yard. Many of us were worried when we saw a gang of workmen spreading hot asphalt over what had been a lawn at the entrance to Seever Hall, but our anxieties have been set at rest now that the metalled surface has been painted green. If this green does not exactly blend into the surrounding landscape the fault must lie with the landscape, and I hope Buildings and Grounds will have...
...Recognitions might be even more grotesque and pretentious than it is, were it not for the comic welt of wit and satire it often leaves behind. Author Gaddis is as faithful as a tape recorder to the babble of loose American tongues, and New York as an asphalt jungle has rarely been patrolled so intensely since Dos Passes' Manhattan Transfer...
...great a thing as a four-minute mile. But it seems to us that if you're going to move the buses, you have to have something to put in their place, and the city probably hasn't even thought of what it will do with the bare asphalt triangle. There are some things it could be filled with, however. It would be a fine location for the University's theatre, if and when it builds one. Right there in the center of the Square, with a flashing triangular marquee, Harvard drama could compete with the movies. More important...
Brains & Plastic. With peace, Goodyear has pushed its diversification even harder. It now does a booming plastics business with a whole line of products for shoes, luggage, floor coverings and furniture. Goodyear also makes rubberized asphalt, has gone into the electronics business, and turns out an electronic computer called the "Geda" for the Air Force. And in Pike County, Ohio, Goodyear is slated to run a $1.2 billion gaseous diffusion plant...