Word: cementation
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...usual red-painted steel beams are not being used in the Library, Phillips said, because the columns will be encased in cement. From the new yantage point, near the site of the old Dudley gate, the amateur supervisors will be able to watch the 30-ton crane hoisting the beams into position...
William Powell, off his Ry-Krisp ands criminal diet for the occasion, does quite well as the gentleman whose ideas of life are set in cement, and he is an excellent straight-man to his prodigal wife. Some of the best scenes between these two, especially those concerned with financial discussions, smack of the show which made father famous. But, since satire is not a strong point of the story, practically all enjoyment must be derived from pure humor--the humor of witty remarks and comic situations. The few celebrated bon mots which the head of the Day family utters...
...made almost $200,000 out of pro tennis. (Last week, by tying in the Reno Open, Vines added $1,600 to the approximately $50,000 he has earned in five years as a golf pro.) Late in the month, Kramer will play in the Pacific Southwest Championships at the cement-courted Los Angeles Tennis Club...
...including farm products) pushed up for the fourth successive week. The Agriculture Department took back a previous prediction that food prices might ease off toward the end of the year. Some basics were on the rise; during the week the average price of metal and metal products lifted 4%. Cement companies advanced prices. Diesel locomotives would cost 6% more. Chrysler Corp. added an average of $87 to the price of its passenger cars (thus leaving Ford and Studebaker as the only major car manufacturers who have held the price line since steel prices lifted...
...will have to be fought out in the courts. So far, FTC's efforts to win similar cases in the courts have failed. The last precedent was a 1946 decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, which refused tp enforce an FTC order for the cement industry to abandon a similar multiple basing point system...