Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Canada Lee, heavy set negro lead in Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," as he walked down Tremont Street toward the Majestic Theatre stage door. "When I was a little kid I can remember white kids in the neighborhood would shout 'nigger' as I walked down the Pavement. Hello Miss Mahoney, I hear you're the belle of Boston--" he stopped to talk for a moment with a lean, grey haired old lady who passed him walking toward Boylston. "Today when I go 'Long the street I know that a colored man is free--'cause those same kids...
...ground. Losing his balance, he tumbled down the dome, got wedged against a parapet. Freeing himself, he spotted another incendiary the vestry roof, walked atop a twelve-foot wall carrying a water bucket. The bomb responded to the water treatment by exploding and hurling Fireman Thompson to the concrete pavement below...
...large lump in back of his left ear from approaching a pretty girl in Times Square during the '20s. "Good afternoon, madam-" he had no more than begun when, blam!, something pile-driving hit him from behind. Jimmy turned over and literally threw a punch from the pavement. After the cops had pulled Jimmy out of the crowd and heard his explanation, they told him to beat it and returned to chafing the wrists and temples of the girl's escort...
...biggest plane in the world-on the ground. For ten weeks she sat there, on Clover Field at Santa Monica, Calif. In one of her first taxiing tests, the Douglas B-19 had chewed up her hydraulic braking system. Earlier she had broken through the macadam pavement. Some, who should have known Douglas Aircraft and the Air Corps better, said she'd never get into the air, she was too heavy...