Word: brick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected to spend $431,000,000. State highway departments are expected to spend $598,000,000 (of which $118,000,000 is to come as contributions from the Federal Government). The total expenditure of slightly over a billion dollars will provide 6,751 miles of asphalt, concrete and brick roads, 14,320 miles of sand-clay, gravel and macadam, and 8,145 miles of improved dirt road?and maintenance of 234,582 miles of roadway...
...continued: "In building materials and construction, we should have to abandon the board measure and substitute square decimeters, centares or ares. Doors which are familiar to all builders as 2 ft. 8 in. by 6 ft. 8 in. become 762 by 2,032 millimeters. An ordinary brick 51 by 101 millimeters. The sizes of sash also are converted into strange units. All architect's drawings will be in new units, involving a most perplexing conversion of current building material units or made upon a system that will involve changes in all woodworking machinery to meet metric units...
...Pennsylvania he met and married in 1843 Anna Margaretta Schmitt, also an immigrant. Her father had been a burgomeister, an elder in the church. A year later their baby, Henry John, was born. In 1850 they moved to Sharpsburg, Pa., where the young father established a brick yard. Frugal Anna wanted her own kitchen garden, had one laid out much larger than her own family needs, sold produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops, the bean vines and the other garden truck Henry John used to play. In the house basement he used to watch his mother pickling...
...retired to the Pullman board chairmanship and has since avoided the public eye. From his summer home at Manchester, Vt., or his big brick mansion in Washington, he issues into the limelight only on very pressing occasions, such as the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial by President Harding on May 30, 1922, or the hanging of his mother's portrait in the White House a fortnight ago, (TIME, Mar. 1, THE PRESIDENCY...
...regards the general appearance special emphasis has been placed on the necessity of making the building harmonize with the best traditions of Harvard architecture. The material is red "brick with the central doorway and cornices of limestone. The window trim and the doors will be of wood similar to that used in the older buildings of the Yard...