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...common experience was that of Charles F. Ayers who upon graduation "went to work for the Aberthaw Company of Boston and stayed with them briefly until I became a victim of the great depression of mid-1930. Undaunted and completely ignorant of the economic trend of the time in which unemployment bulked large, I caught on with the Fuller Company...
...Boston's Aberthaw Construction Company was given the order to begin work, and on Class Day, June 22, 1903, the ground was broken at the site of the structure. Surveys of the field were made that same...
...Engineering Societies (June, 1904, Vol. 32, No. 2) lying handy, you might be interested to learn that in 1902, after sweating over a hot slide-rule for some weeks, the architect team of McKim, Mead and White rushed up from New York laden with rolls of blue paper. The Aberthaw Construction Company of Boston wasted no time: saziche sandwiches were prepared, red wine was distributed, and the cement started pouring. After a year-and-a-half of carefully directed work, the building was completed, and the University's treasurer neatly penned a check for $295,000. It was good...
...Charles M. Harrington '85 will give an illustrated lecture on "Experiences of an Engineer in Jamaica" this evening at 8 o'clock in Pierce 110, under the auspices of the Engineering Society. Mr. Harrington, who is assistant engineer of the Aberthaw Construction Company, which built the Stadium, has recently been in Jamaica, engaged in the construction of re-enforced concrete buildings. He will relate some interesting experiences of the earthquake of January 14, and will show a number of excellent slides to illustrate several episodes...
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