Word: asphalting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week a flock of 32 pigeons flew from their windowsill perches on the east side of lower Broadway toward St. Paul's Chapel on the west side. In mid-flight each pigeon closed its wings, dropped dead to the asphalt...
Buildings. Duke moved last Autumn out from Durham and up the broad asphalt avenue to the clearing in the forest. The women's college took possession of the old Trinity campus with several new buildings added. The first spring in the clearing finds everything there completed? 31 separate structures?except the great chapel which is rising opposite where the asphalt avenue sweeps into the clearing. The long axis of the campus is at right angles to the avenue, with the hospital at the right end as you enter and dormitory quadrangles opening off the left end, beyond the long double...
...antiques, which he collects passionately) to promote Carbon Petroleum Dubbs's inventions and to direct patent suits such as the one against Standard of Indiana, which already has cost $1,800,000, is still to come to trial. Previously he had helped Armour retrieve a failing investment, Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co., and sell it to Oilman Henry Latham Doherty. His share in the profits last week...
...Association. The aim of each is to promote the interests of its members: soapmen know that the Cleanliness Institute is a booster for more washing. But sometimes .this mutual help goes further than advertising. And for this reason last week many an institute fearfully watched the affairs of the Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute which had drawn upon its own roof, which shelters 41 members, the fire of Federal prosecution...
...Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute's affairs the Government claimed to see much that violated anti-trust laws. It objected to the way in which the Institute, whose members dominate the field, reported prices, equalized freight, fixed uniform maximum discounts to customers classified by volume or function. The Government objected, too, to the Institute's arbitration system and method of bonding each member ($25,000 to $100,000) to insure payment of penalties...