Word: asphalting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Berlin's streets are paved with smooth asphalt which becomes eel-slick in wet weather. The problem of slippery asphalt is more acute in Berlin than in most cities for though the city is as far north as Hudson Bay, little snow falls there. Rainy weather is normal weather from November through March...
...continuance of the time-honored usage of winter-walks. For, since 1912, when science first attacked the University Maintenance Department in the form of a numbering system to facilitate the annual construction of the walks machinistic materialism has not ceased from encroaching upon this territory. For several years now, asphalt has been replacing wood for these purposes. This year, in spite of the depression, no little progress has been made along these lines. But three years ago, when the length of the wooden walks were last measured, there were almost seven miles of them. Now there are baroly over five...
...larger unit industries, the leadership comes from within. Though encouraged by the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission, trade associations are ever eyed suspiciously by the Attorney General's office. The potent Bolt, Nut & Rivet Manufacturers Association was dissolved. Famed suits are pending against the Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute, the Sugar Institute (TIME, Feb. 22). Charges brought are generally "combination and conspiracy" to restrain trade or efforts to fix prices.* Even the steel industry has drawn Governmental fire, for allegedly pegging the price of rails at $43 a ton since 1923. Through the twilight zone between legal...
...prohibiting demonstrations there. To Roy Robertson's picketers went the police order: "Keep out of the plaza, stay off the grass, keep moving." Leader Robertson obeyed. Back & forth behind a soiled U. S. flag filed his men on the far side of the black expanse of asphalt. Food was served them afoot, including 1,000 sandwiches contributed by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Up & down his thin column paced Robertson, exhorting his men in a voice croaky with fatigue. Shoes came off, blistered feet padded doggedly on the hot "pavement. After the first all-night march exhaustion threatened to break...
...Asphalt. Apparently there was not sufficient money in the case of the General Asphalt pool, described by Witness John L. Weeks. Members of the pool included Morgan Partners Thomas Cochran and Horatio Gates Lloyd, chairman of General Asphalt's executive committee. Though $6,000,000 was originally deposited, the members were assessed an additional $1,369,000, and after two and a half years of futile operations, the pool wound up by distributing the stock to members at a further loss...