Word: cementation
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...Widener Spreads Cement...
...Widener spread the cement with a silver trowel, and the stone was lowered into place, while the choir sang Martin Luther's impressive hymn, "Nun danket alle Gott." President Lowell then introduced Justice Swayze, president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Massachusetts, speaking especially of the fittingness of the cornerstone of the Memorial, being laid in the presence of the first scholars of the University...
...been under direct orders of the Shah. He approved plans, altered details. Little did it seem to matter to the King of Kings that an architect omitted plumbing detail when building a hotel, that Teheran's water supply still came through the streets in half-open, easily contaminated cement drains, that Teheran's old electric power plant had a limited capacity. When His Imperial Majesty drove at night through a street not sufficiently lighted for his tastes, he ordered more powerful bulbs installed. Upshot of this was that the rest of Teheran was plunged into semidarkness...
...helping to cement good feeling between Japan and the U. S., Dr. James Augustin Brown Scherer, onetime (1908-20) president of California Institute of Technology, last year received from the Japanese Government a jeweled medal, the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure. Unlike Dr. Scherer's previous eleven books on Japan, Japan Defies the World, published last January, was unpopular with the Japanese, who promptly banned it. Piqued, Dr. Scherer last week handed back his medal. Said he: "If this emblem was given me to seal my lips, I don't want...
...Federal Trade Commission has been investigating the possible existence of price-fixing and collusion in the cement industry for several months. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. announced that just to be on the safe side President Roosevelt had ordered that cement purchasing by all Federal agencies be concentrated in the Treasury's Procurement Division, that all bidders on cement and other building materials be required "to certify that there has been no collusion with other bidders...