Word: asphalting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President signed NRA codes for furniture; garages & parking; fireworks; excelsior; asphalt & mastic tile; waste manufacturers...
...pressmen, publishers and advertisers had a band led by a dancing Indian in a war bonnet (see p. 50 ). Walter Damrosch was with the radio people; little old Charles Winninger led the actors. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel's costumed choristers from Radio City cut capers on the asphalt. Paramount had four imitation Marx Brothers and six Mae Wests. Some Army signalers paused in front of the reviewing stand to fly 50 pigeons back to Washington with greetings to the President. The Stock Exchange crowd had a band of Scotch pipers. The Cotton Exchange people had a band which just played...
Lawyer Feblowicz, irked at his 80-mark repair bill for an accident that was neither his fault nor that of the other car. learned from scientific friends that a new type of asphalt paving has been perfected which is guaranteed antiskid. None of it has been laid in Berlin...
Lawyer Feblowicz assembled his friends, summoned chemists, engineers, traffic policemen, asphalt manufacturers, chauffeurs, sued the municipality of Berlin for 80 marks ($19). Object of the case was to force the city to lay anti-skid paving in its streets. Since the suit was for less than 100 marks, no appeal is possible...
...unemployed against draining several million marks from the city treasury, Mayor Sahm issued calls to city department heads last week for a great conference to decide whether to wait for more damage suits or to start at once replacing Berlin's 70,000,000 sq. feet of asphalt...