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Show A True Story," We're Told. A contractor was busy ln a smalt New York village laying out a concrete con-crete road. In front of one home where he was Inspecting the work was an observant old lady, watching the men place the reinforcing steel ln the concrete. The addition of the wire mesh greatly Impressed her. 'Tea, William," she later told one of the villnge trustees In telling him about the reinforcement, "now I know why concrete pavements are so easy to ride on. This morning I watched them lay the bed springs In the concrete." |