Word: delson
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...After several months' use by fairly heavy traffic the salted roads are standing up admirably, Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin reported last week, and one stretch near Ithaca, N. Y. came through a pounding by nine inches of rain without visible effect. Developed by Cloyd Delson Looker, research director of International Salt Co., and Heinrich Ries, Cornell University geologist, the treatment makes clay hard like concrete, retards evaporation so that the surface remains moist and firm, provides an almost nonskid track. The cost per mile ($1,200) is about a third that of asphalt, one-twentieth...