Word: paver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labor-saving machinery is also playing a big part in holding down costs. Aurora Ill.'s Barber-Greene Co. built a giant $500,000 mobile asphalt plant for Fort Lauderdale's Mobil Asphalt Co., complete with mixing machines, road paver, bunkhouse and machine shop, which rolls under its own power to a job. In a matter of hours it can be set up and with one man operating it, produce 250 tons of asphalt an hour. It will finish in 70 days a 65-mile stretch of highway which was scheduled to take 150 days. Milwaukee...