Word: glasphalt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testimony before the Senate Committee on Public Works last week, Richard L. Cheney, executive director of the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute, called attention to an experimental product called "glasphalt." Developed at the University of Missouri, it uses finely ground glass granules to replace the rock aggregates now used as a construction material for highways. One 58-foot-long test strip of glasphalt pavement, outside the Owens-Illinois Technical Center in Toledo, has held up well during the worst winter in years; engineers reported virtually no cracking, rippling or holes in the surface and gave it a top rating for skid...
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