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...occasion of the 225th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, as many of the 73 senior and twelve junior members of a namesake club as could meet together did so. It became known that members of this club include President B. F. Affleck of Universal Portland Cement Co., Editor B. F. Betts of The American Architect, Vice President...
...usher in a vaudeville theatre. He went to Philadelphia, was discharged in a week. He obtained work with a sewer-pipe sales agency. The firm failed. He went to work for a metallurgical engineer, learned how to read blueprints. Six months later he went to work for a cement firm. By 1906, when he was 22, he was making $125 a month, had helped bring his parents to Philadelphia. One day he was summoned to his employer's office. The owners of the cement company had coal mines in Illinois. Three successive managers had resigned, the last one taking...
...cleared up the Iliad. He even attempted to get into the mood of the Greek drama but-somewhere or other he has learned that the needy catchword for the theatre of Sophocles is "simplicity." He tried, yes and diligently, but whoever could attain quiet and simplicity amid the thundering cement-grinders, seemingly banal excavations, and unutterable chaos mixed with modern Georgian architecture which has flooded the Cantabrigtan shores? His advice is to take "The New Criterion," and call...
Aerocrete is made of Portland cement, sand and small quantities of lime, aluminum powder, soda. When poured out in thick liquid form, the presence of the aluminum powder in an alkaline solution causes a chemical reaction, liberates hydrogen, forms a cellular structure. Within a half-hour after pouring, aerocrete begins to puff up. At the end of an hour, expansion reaches its limit, the material hardens. By varying the amount of ingredients, expansion can be controlled, may vary from 50% to 150% of original volume...
Bearish in the situation is unemployment in the building trades, now estimated at 37% against 16% last year. But a bullish sign is that while most building material is moving slowly, shipments of cement and fabricated steel have been nearly equal to last year...