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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HERMAN G. EBERT Philadelphia, Pa...
...Ordinary soil mixed with 15% cement paves the three 3,000-ft. runways of a new 300-acre airfield owned by Brewster Aeronautical Corp. in Bucks County, Pa. This saved hauling countless tons of gravel and sand to mix with the cement, cut costs 40%, saved time too. The cement-and-dirt pavement can scarcely be broken with sledge hammers, can easily absorb the pounding of Flying Fortresses, is expected to last over ten years. Air force engineers who developed it expect small cracks to appear during the winter, will seal the field with asphalt to prevent ice heaves...
Philadelphia, Pa...
...BUERKLE Pittsburgh, Pa...
Even Philadelphia's terrible-tempered Dr. Albert C. ("Argyrol") Barnes, who owns more Renoirs than the Louvre, has the Pennsylvania Dutch itch. In one of his best vitriol-blue shirts, white-haired Collector Barnes was one of those who went last week to the little town of Norristown, Pa., to inspect an exhibition of antiquated German-American knickknacks. In the barrel-vaulted attic of its knackwurst-colored Town Hall, Norristown held its annual Antiques Show, one of a chain of country-fair dealers' exhibitions that periodically sweep the towns of the Pennsylvania Dutch 'country like an epidemic...