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Show AMERICAN DOCUMENTS Constitution to be Preserved in Glass America's most precious documents docu-ments the Declaration of Independence Independ-ence and the Constitution will be preserved permanently in glass, it was announced recently in Washington. Wash-ington. Work on finding a suitable way of preserving the parchments began a decade ago, but was interrupted by World War II. Since the revival of the project, officials of the Library of Congress, scientists of the Na tional Bureau of Standards and Thermopane technicians of Libbey Owen-Ford glass company hav spent nearly four years perfectinj special bronze and glass enclosurei for the job. When the two historical symbol! of democracy are once safely storet in glass they will be available foi inspection by the public. . |