Word: bostock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...construction engineer for the Supervisors, testified that school buildings were "covered with ornaments stuck on with chewing gum." The Los Angeles Examiner said that it had analyzed mortar used in school buildings, found it one-third to one-half as strong as required by law. Another engineer, W. M. Bostock, was of the opinion that "no moral or legal responsibility is to be fixed. At the worst the builders were greedy and wanted a little too much building for their money...
Break-up of Bostock...
Known far & wide throughout the British Isles since 1805, Bostock & Wombwell's Royal Menagerie gave a farewell performance in Glasgow last fortnight and then folded its tents forever. Big, florid E. H. Bostock ran the circus. Last year he was 73. He arranged to disband the animals, then went off to South Africa to avoid seeing the menagerie broken...