Word: cementation
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Then Governor Talmadge marched down to cement the entente with Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads in the Department of Agriculture. By the time he finished that interview it was apparent that if Georgia's $19,000,000 was comfortably on a hook, it was also going to stay there for a time. The announced reason of Chief MacDonald and Secretary Wallace for holding up Georgia's road allotment was that Georgia's Highway Department is not equipped to cooperate-that the one helpful engineer in the Department had been fired. Hence Governor...
...Wilson, onetime Congressman from Mississippi whom Senator Pat Harrison, not entirely unselfishly, rescued from political limbo with a Federal judgeship in the Islands, had previously distinguished himself by proceeding in the face of bitter opposition to prosecute a quadroon PWA clerk named Mclntosh for pilfering $38.40 worth of Government cement and lumber. Last week it developed that fierce discord had also arisen between Judge Wilson and the Pearson Administration over disposition of the case of Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet. relict of famed Confederate General James Longstreet.* Widow Longstreet had had her driver's license revoked for parking her automobile...
Central, prosperous Hankow, a teeming city (pop. 1,500,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of China," cowered in collective panic as most of the subsidiary dike systems were swept away and the great Chang-kung Dike built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above Hankow reported that for miles around the fertile countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard...
...turned up screaming with 101 charges of graft, waste and corruption. A refrigerator salesman mysteriously committed suicide but, sifted by two Interior Department investigators, Attorney Baer's 101 charges simmered down to the case of one poor quadroon named Mclntosh who had innocently appropriated $38.40 worth of government cement and lumber in exchange for various odd jobs he had done. Attorney Baer and Police Director Nolan lost their jobs...
Direct labor is only a fraction of the cost of a job. Secretary Ickes' public works, by his own estimate, average $2,132 for every man employed because steel, stone, cement, lumber and other heavy materials have to be bought for such projects. Obviously President Roosevelt would have to cut down on the number of jobs he would be able to give out of his $4,000,000,000 or else he would have to strike out all expensive materials from his schedule and thereby reduce the kind of work offered almost to the leaf-raking level...