Word: cementation
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Fuller Cars. Average load is perhaps five tons more than last year, ten tons more than 20 years ago. Shippers everywhere were cooperating in the drive for fuller cars. A cement shipper saved 600 cars in one month; 36 instead of 18 hogsheads of tobacco per car cut a tobacco shipper's requirements by 465 cars. By doubling the number of barrels of flour per car, a northwestern miller used 100 fewer cars. Less-than-carload-lot shipments under six tons have been entirely banned by ODT, cutting l.c.l. carloadings last month 251,950 below last years...
...jingle from their pockets. Girls who had worked as maids for room, board and peanuts found factory jobs at $100-$200 a month. A Manhattan physician's maid quit to move into her own home: her husband, out of work for years, now made $26 a day pouring cement...
...shine through again. When he is through, the puzzle picture is carefully scrambled again, sent to bake in a kiln until each stroke of pigment left on the glass is melted permanently into the pane. The panes are then reassembled, fixed permanently in place with strips of lead and cement. Joep Nicolas' big, glowing picture is then ready to be set up in its window frame...
...cement invasion barges had been invented when Crusader Richard Coeur de Lion captured the island of Cyprus in the Twelfth Century. The Knights of St. John had no guns nor explosives when they built a castled city on the Isle of Rhodes. Airplanes were undreamed-of when they buried their loot in the caverns on the island of Malta. But then as now, these islands were steppingstones toward the treasures of Egypt and the Holy land. Men's weapons have changed but the routes of conquest remain...
EASTON, PA.--Twenty tons of dynamite exploded in a tremendous sheet of flame at a Lehigh Portland Cement Co. quarry today, blowing at least 31 workmen 'to bits" leveling nearby homes and hurling debris into a community seven miles away...