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Article: As 20th century fades, a look at where we've been.(Special Report: Hall of Fame)(Construction Equipment's Industry Hall of Fame)
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- Construction Equipment
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- October 1, 1999
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Seven industrial pioneers are newest members of the Construction Equipment Industry Hall of Fame
A Century of Progress was the name chosen for the Chicago World's Fair of 1933-34 when a nation in the depths of the Great Depression looked back on a newly industrialized economy that most believed would bring better times. And so it is, 65 years later at the threshold of a new millennium, that the nation can look back and see that the machines of the 20th Century did indeed bring times so robust they defy economic teachings.
Construction machinery, in particular, has evolved over the past century through the creativity of men such as those who make up the ...