Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gypsum-seller Shearer can tell these facts with authority having entered the industry in 1893. He shared in the origin of the U. S. Gypsum Co., perhaps the greatest concern of the industry. He was with the American Cement Plaster Co. for ten years. Then in 1923 he created the Universal Gypsum...
During these years he gained the esteem of Carleton H. Palmer, president of E. R. Squibb & Sons (reliable drugs). Mr. Palmer was also vice president of the Palmer Lime & Cement Co. of Manhattan. Both firms were supplying materials to building contractors. There was no obstacle to their merging and thereby making great management economies...
...nose out and prevent diversion of industrial alcohol for synthetic whiskies and gins; 3) 88 other sleuths to work with the American Railway Association in matching wits with shippers of beer who now, it seems, can baffle the shrewdest freight-masters by disguising their bubblesome liquid as lumber, cement, merchandise...
Died. Representative Lawrence J. Flaherty, 47, of California, onetime cement mason; at Washington, D. C., after an operation...
...years, efforts have been made by tree surgeons to prolong the life of the Agassiz elm. In 1910 the giant tree which measured a little less than ten feet in circumference at its base, showed signs of dry not around the roots and the ailing portions were reinforced with cement fillings. Later as the tree continued to lean more and more towards the museum, which was erected in 1901, wire braces were used in an effort to straighten it. The trunk which was badly torn when the tree was partially uprooted was almost completely rotted through...