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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1976
Page
9
The United States issued Patent 4,000,000 for a system to recycle asphalt and aggregate materials. Robert L. Mendenhall of Las Vegas, Nevada, received the milestone patent as Patent Commissioner C. Marshall Dann marked it a historic achievement aligned with America’s Bicentennial year.
The item lists a crossword by Eugene Sheffer with clues and answers from yesterday and today. It notes a date line for December 30 1976 and highlights historical events including Sun Yat Sen’s provisional presidency in 1911, the 1853 Gadsden Purchase, and Rudyard Kipling’s 1865 birth.
History notes chart major events from 1903 to 1966 including the Iroquois Theater fire disaster in Chicago with over 500 deaths. It also records King George of Greece declaring a regency in 1944, King Michael of Romania abdication in 1947 under pressure from Communists, a Soviet fishing fleet ship sinking in 1966 with 50 lives lost, and Western Europe forming an industrial free trade area ten years earlier.
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