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Phill y’s Demo Industry Shows Growth…8
Firm Turns Stolen Iron Into Opportunity…14
131st National Cemetery Built in Pennsylvania According to the National Cemetery Administration, a department of the Veterans Administration (VA), national cemeteries were first discussed during the Civil War. At that time Congress authorized the purchase of sites to be used as burial grounds for officers and men who had died while fighting for the Union. Before then, the dead on both sides of the conflict had been buried on battlefields, near hospitals and camps, or transferred to families to make private burial arrangements. Two years after the end of the Civil War, the National Cemetery Act of 1867 provided for the foundation of national cemeteries and granted the first funds for the creation of these burial places. The Veterans Administration currently operates 130 national cemeteries in the United States and is in the process of devel- Pre-cast crypts are being installed in the burial area. Brubacher Excavating is performing the oping or planning a dozen new cemeteries excavation, stone and drainage work. for the benefit of veterans and eligible members of their families. Washington Crossing Historic Park where The process of bringing the project to Bucks The Washington Crossing National George Washington famously crossed the County began in 1998, when legislation was Cemetery, located in Upper Makefield Delaware River during the War of introduced calling for construction of a local Township in Bucks County, Pa., will be the Independence, the cemetery opened in late national cemetery. However, it was not until 131st such facility. 2009, although work continues on its construc- 2006 that the VA purchased farmland in Lower Situated a couple of miles from the tion. see CEMETERY page 94
Sambol Celebr ates 5 5 Year s in Busi ness…18
NYC Plans $3B Transformation of Waterfront
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By Samantha Gross ASSOCIATED PRESS
Truck & Trailers Section ...... ......................................51-55 Attachments Section ..59-67 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ........73-93 Parts Section ....................95 Auction Section ......124-140 Business Calendar ..........131 Advertisers Index............138
room for giant ships that are rarely seen on the East Coast. The blueprint is New York City’s attempt to reverse more than a century of planning that left much of the city’s 520 mi. (836 km) of shoreline
NEW YORK (AP) For decades, development in New York was about concrete, skyscrapers and roads — highways that often ringed the city and kept people from the hundreds of miles of waterfront shoreline that help define the city. Now, the city’s first waterfront plan in two decades will spend billions of dollars to Over the next couple of years, Volvo CE plans reunite New Yorkers with their water. to spend $100 million in its Shippensburg, Pa., The $3 billion-plus plan would add 50 manufacturing facility and start production of acres (20 hectares) of parks, expand Volvo wheel loaders, excavators and articulated dozens more, overhaul the city’s sewage haulers in North America. Also, the Volvo CE system to reduce waste pushed into the North American sales headquarters and Volvo rivers and dredge waterways to make Rents will relocate from Asheville, N.C. to
inaccessible to residents and instead directed them inland for their recreation and relaxation. “New York City has more miles of waterfront than Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, and see NYC page 117
Volvo CE Plans to Spend $100M Shippensburg, Pa. by September 2012. “It makes sense, when possible, to manufacture products close to where our customers are,” said Olof Persson, president and CEO of Volvo Construction Equipment. “The global demand for see VOLVO page 135