Street Pavements and Paving Materials: A Manual of City Pavements: the Methods and Materials of Their Construction. For the Use of Students, Engineers, and City Officials |
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Page 38 - River system, which virtually blankets the area from the Appalachian Mountains on the east to the Rocky Mountains on the west, and from the Canadian border on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south.
Page 423 - A third pat is exposed in any convenient way in an atmosphere of steam, above boiling water, in a loosely closed vessel for 5 hours. 23. These pats, to sat;sfactorily pass the requirements, shall remain firm and hard, and show no signs of distortion, checking, cracking, or disintegrating.