Word: cementation
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...Cracked down on 18 leading U. S. tire companies. Charging price collusion in submitting identical bids for Government contracts, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold sued the 18 for $1,053,474.63. Like the Government's crackdown on cement and threatened crackdown on steel pricing policies, the action was symptomatic of the New Deal's current conviction that rigid industrial prices are the basis both of monopoly and of continued hard times...
This is a time when the U. S., Great Britain and Canada are joining hands in a rising surge of good feeling and friendship, and the forthcoming visit of Their Majesties, King George and Queen Elizabeth, to our countries will still further cement this natural bond that is so welcome to all of our good citizens...
...farmer named Stanley R. Pierce took his 1,43O-lb. Aberdeen-Angus steer, Advance, 72 miles to Chicago, to the first International Live Stock Exposition. Advance won the title of Grand Champion Steer. As this year's gaily bedecked, heavily disinfected show opened last week in the brick-&-cement International Amphitheatre at Chicago's Union Stock Yards, Farmer Pierce was again on hand. Watching his best beef cattle collect only three prizes (a 4th, a 5th, a 13th), he mused sadly that Advance had won in "an easy walkaway" against heavier, higher, bigger and older animals. Then...
...surface facts seem impishly simple: backed at first by an elderly Halifax financier, he engineered mergers of banks, utilities, steel and cement companies, collecting ever bigger commissions. His greatest merger, which formed the $37,500,000 Canada Cement Co. Ltd., was almost a Dominion scandal (which Beaverbrook blames on a disappointed rival). But he was already tired of mere moneymaking...
...raucously indefatigable practical joker (he once planted 100 pigeons in a friend's office), heavy-jowled, big-nosed Herbert got into banking in 1907 after making a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills. Subsequent huge profits in shipping, agriculture, oil, mining, hotels and cement won him great repute as a daring plunger. But some stockholders charged that his plunges were more profitable to Herbert than to them. (Last month the Maritime Commission listed him among those who milked the Dollar Line almost to extinction...