Word: blacktopping
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This merely contributes to the outrage of French motorists. France has an exquisite network of roads, lined with noble colonnades of trees. They run straight as arrows from one picturesque village to another. But these blacktop paths are nearly as narrow as in Napoleon's time (when they were designed), and are totally inadequate to the 10 million vehicles now struggling to get from place to place...
...Fair banks, Alaska, more than 2,000 ft. thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. Permafrost blocks well shafts, freezes oil drills, makes water piping and sewage disposal costly, heaves up 5-ft. hummocks in airport runways. Thawed, it only gets worse. Heated buildings tilt on their softened foundations. Blacktop highways often absorb enough heat to melt their way downhill...
Oilmen have long known why the black mess made by an overflowing well disappears so soon from the smirched ground. Road builders understand equally why blacktop pavement is eaten away from below. The guilty parties in both cases are microorganisms that go for hydrocarbons like kittens lapping spilled cream. Until recently no one made much of the hungry bugs' peculiar tastes blast week Research Director Alfred Champagnat of Société Française des Pétroles, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co Ltd. announced that he has domesticated the oil eaters and that they are excellent...
Early each Sunday, 800 members of the Akron Baptist Temple faithfully arrive at the twelve-acre garden of blacktop and buildings that is their church. They are not the congregation, but merely the staff of deacons, teachers, janitors, ushers, singers, pianists and parking-lot attendants. Once on the job and in uniform-choir in their Sunday best, car hustlers in white-they are ready to receive the crowds who come to hear their pastor...
...with rocks; before leaving it, douse it with water and sand and stir thoroughly until it is cool enough to be sifted by hand). In Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, the streams rippled with trout (provided by the wildlife commissions), and the campsites, many with their own blacktop driveways, rippled with people. The rhododendron overhung the creeks in Minnesota's Lake Itasca State Park, and little boys overhung the rhododendron, while some of their fathers were just hung over, gazing blankly at the huge oaks, hickories. spruces and poplars. At Kennedy Meadow, just north of Yosemite Park...