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May 12, 2012 • Vol. IXX • No. 10 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com
Inside
Mark Twain Bridges Eye Memorial Day Opening
CAWGC Hosts Annual Meet & Greet Expo...10
AP Photo/Pool, Mark Lennihan
Ironworkers Jim Brady (L) and Billy Geoghan release a steel cable after connecting a steel beam between two columns at the top of One World Trade Center to make it New York City’s tallest skyscraper.
Murphy Tractor Celebrates Opening...14
Crews work to remove an existing joint on one of the Route 107 bridges.
By Jennifer Rupp
WTC Is Back on Top in New York City
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Sal es Bri sk at Ale x Lyon & Son Auct ion. .. 90
Table of Contents ............4 Wheel Loaders, Tool Carriers & Attachments Section ......................31-49 Parts Section ............68-69 Paving Section ........71-83 Auction Section ......88-97 Business Calendar ........89 Advertisers Index ..........98
By David B. Caruso Florida, Mo., may spark recognition in the minds of many Americans as the birth- ASSOCIATED PRESS place of writer Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain. The author of Adventures of Huckberry Finn was honored in namesake by many local attractions, including Mark NEW YORK (AP) One World Trade Center, the giant Twain Lake in 1984, owned and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in Mark Twain Lake is Northern Missouri’s largest lake with more than 18,000 acres of the Sept. 11 attacks, layed claim to the title of New York see BRIDGES page 70 City’s tallest skyscraper on April 30. Workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 ft. high, just enough to peak over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building. The milestone is a preliminary one. Workers are still adding floors to the so-called “Freedom Tower” and it isn’t expected to reach its full height for at least another year, at which point it is likely to be declared the tallest building in the United States, and third tallest in the world. Those bragging rights, though, will carry an asterisk. Crowning the world’s tallest buildings is a little like pickyear politics. Both Congress and By Joan Lowy ing the heavyweight champion in boxing. There is often disPresident Barack Obama have made ASSOCIATED PRESS agreement about who deserves the belt. transportation infrastructure investment In this case, the issue involves the 408-ft.-tall needle that the centerpiece of their jobs agendas. But WASHINGTON (AP) Defying will sit on the tower’s roof. expectations, Congress has reached the the political imperative for passing a bill Count it, and the World Trade Center is back on top. homestretch on a major overhaul of fed- has been complicated by House Otherwise, it will have to settle for No. 2, after the Willis eral transportation programs that is criti- Republicans’ insistence on including a Tower in Chicago. mandate for federal approval of the cal if the nation is to avoid steep cut“Height is complicated,” said Nathaniel Hollister, a Keystone XL oil pipeline. The White backs in highway and transit aid. spokesman of The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban The bill is driven partly by electionsee BILL page 30
Highway Bill Heads for Legislative Homestretch
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