Word: asphalts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Workman will pour asphalt on the paths in front of Lamont Library tomorrow, a week behind schedule. Frederick Jackson, engineer in charge of grading, revealed that the delay was caused by three days of rain last week which stopped work completely...
Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls...
Their only monument the asphalt road...
...cities, as asphalt pavements softened to the consistency of taffy, hundreds of factories and offices began letting the help off early. When they didn't, the help just stayed away. There were 20,000 absentees in Detroit automobile plants on the day after the heat wave began. Attendance at big-league baseball games dwindled. Women went on sitting under beauty-parlor hair dryers (see cut) but only after stripping off half their clothes and donning toga-like sheets...
Hard-Headed. In Champaign, Ill., John L. Franklin had given up trying to raise asparagus after three years, built an asphalt drive across the patch, this spring discovered sprouts cracking through the pavement...