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El Paso International Airport began as a 1928 municipal airfield on the site of the old city waterworks, made possible when County Attorney D. E. Mulcahy ruled the proposed field a public highway, allowing the city and county to use $25,000 for grading and a single hangar. Mayor R. E. Thomason…

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