Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover offices at 333 North Michigan Avenue (20th and 21st floors). But the pink-white-and-gray man in the office is only formally subordinate to Dr. Work. After seeing how ably the Midwestern cornerstone of his vote was being swung into place and how carefully the cement was being mixed, Nominee Hoover gave pink-white-and-gray James William Good implicit freedom and full control at Chicago. When Dr. Work goes to New York he feels free to issue suggestions and vetoes to Senator Moses. When he goes to Chicago, as he did on the eve of the Smith...
International Cement Corp.: $2,196,458 as against...
...main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power to electricity. And the Tokyo Electric Light Co. supplies it. No wonder, remarks Wall Street, the company has paid dividends every...
...Teatro Colon is no ordinary South-American opera house, such a dirty and pretentious little place as is to be found in almost every town, full of onion-eating opera lovers gazing at tenors who yodel and choke. El Teatro Colon is an enormous building of marble and white cement, facing a palmed piazza. In it there is room for 3,500 people to sit; these all come invariably in evening dress...
...said to be the largest of its kind in the country, will undoubtedly play a large part in assuring it a ranking position. The addition of valuable manuscripts and works of art to both the Cambridge and the Peking collections will not only enrich them but also serve to cement the bonds of friendship between the people of each country...