Word: cementation
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...businessman, every news editor and a good portion of the public have long been thoroughly aware of Ivy Ledbetter Lee as the highest priced pressagent in the land, the suave representative (at one time or another) of Schwab, Chrysler, the Armours, Harvard University, Princeton, Thompson-Starrett Co., Portland Cement, the Guggenheims, the Red Cross, the Republic of Poland, New York's Interborough subway, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Waldorf-Astoria and-longest and most notably-the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Rockefellers...
When Publisher William Randolph Hearst was loudly thumping for his BUY AMERICAN movement six months ago, the City of New York became his first important disciple. The city government agreed to specify domestic steel in all its building contracts. Going a step farther, it forbade the use of imported cement in municipal construction. The Hearst Press trumpeted its triumph...
...when a few weeks later the city called for bids on 40,000 bags of cement, it found that domestic cement dealers had jumped their price 10? per bag. The bids were thrown out. new ones called for. Last week the Board of Estimate, disgusted with this result of BUY AMERICAN, and egged on by Attorney Samuel Untermyer who denounced the U. S. cement industry as a price-fixing trust, rescinded its ban on foreign cement...
...proved this by taking a trip around the world's periphery. When he returned he bragged to newsmen that he was "worth $10,000,000" (TIME, March 16, 1931). He owned everything in Zion, which included candy bar, cookie and lace factories, bank, department store, publishing house, cement plant, bakery. Last week Mr. Voliva was an involuntary bankrupt and his Zion industries were in receivership. Liabilities were listed at $800,000, assets at $2,000,000, mostly frozen. For two years 5,000 Zion employes had received no regular pay checks, although they had drawn food & clothing from...
...Baldwin Locomotive Works joyfully announced : "We have just received an order for a locomotive from the Philippines. It amounts to $25,000." Last year no U. S. locomotive builder received an order except American Locomotive. That one was built in Alco's Montreal plant for a Brazilian cement company...