Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steel-Cement. Building contractors who go shopping for steel usually also have to go shopping for cement. Last week United States Steel Corp. offered to exchange some $31,000,000 of its stock for Atlas Portland Cement Co. which produces 19,000,000 barrels a year. Other cement companies realized that from the combination will come potent competition, but also potent support of a higher cement tariff...
...study of the operating results and policies of building material dealers, covering the year 1928, has just been completed by the Bureau of Business Research of Harvard University. This survey was undertaken at the instance of the Atlas Portland Cement Company, which furnished funds to defray the costs. The report, which has been published as Bulletin No. 81 of the bureau is based on statements from 369 dealers...
...begged the President to save the coffee situation by declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market on his own slight shoulders...
...they heard that Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin had placed in charge of Russia's schools and universities bold, dashing, ruthless General Andrei Bubnov (pronounced Boobnoff). Dictator Stalin himself is not exactly educated, speaks no language except Russian, has to look up places like "Portugal" in a dog-eared atlas. He knows well enough that General Bubnov was expelled from the Moscow School of Agriculture 26 years ago as a "dangerous radical" and has had little or no formal education since. More important in the Dictator's eyes is the fact that Bubnov fought valiantly as a commander...
...blinding heat, a French army patrol wound deep into the Atlas Mountains last week. Ambling, loose-jointed came a detachment of the Camel Corps, then a sweltering khaki-clad detachment of the Foreign Legion, finally a black-skinned, red-fezzed detachment of stalwart Senegalese. The column entered the pass called El Bordj. Nothing is there but blistering rocks, flat, cracked stretches of baked mud. The French column, losing contact with their flank outposts, pushed forward intent on reaching the evening's camp...