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...Allis Chalmers' 25-ton, 280-h.p. motor scraper, with top capacity of 20 cu. yds. Its business end is shaped like a garden shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: The Golden Road | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...McClure Kelley, 57, was elected president of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., succeeding Marvin W. Smith, who stays on as chairman of the executive committee. Princeton-educated "Mac" Kelley practiced law in Washington, served as a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, joined Western Wheeled Scraper Co. in 1929 as a credit manager, rose to president. The company merged with Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton in 1951. As president, he will work on plans for an atomic locomotive under Chairman George A. Rentschler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...that the old man is back at the helm of Brazil, the foundation was valiantly hacking away at one of the world's last great frontiers. To do the job, it had an appropriation of $400,000, and a construction outfit consisting of a bulldozer, a road scraper, six light planes and some of the most determined men on the South American continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Winning of the West | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...sliding scraper pushed (by oil pressure) through the pipeline to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...department, and Sam's bar & grill was like any neighborhood joint around St. Mark's Place on the Lower East Side. Its only distinctive touch was Sam's cousin, "Bottle Sam" Hock, who amused the trade by whacking tunes out of whisky bottles with a suds-scraper. But the customers got a joyful jolt when Sam opened up one morning last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Nickel In St. Mark's Place | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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