Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Corey Wynn's freshman tennis team opened its season with an 8 to 1 victory over Milton yesterday on the losers' cement courts. The "B" squad takes on Middlesex today at Concord...
...station, a stocky, grim-faced little man strode briskly through the hurrying crowds this week, peering at the passing faces through horn-rimmed glasses. A few old hands at the station nodded recognition, and the word, went around: "Mr. Sutherland is back again." John L. Sutherland, 70, a Vancouver cement contractor, was back at King's Cross for the sixth time looking for his son, who is officially reported dead...
...Englishmen took in the gruesome details of the latest crime avidly, but with a practiced palate-it was, both in its profusion of corpses and in certain other characteristics, so very like London. Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer of 1942 (with...
...their automobile manufacturing company which Edgar runs. Kaiser-Frazer lost some $52 million during its seven years of existence, and is $48.4 million in hock to the RFC. Old Henry put most of the family's millions into the highly profitable Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical and Permanente Cement companies, controlled by his personal holding company, the Henry J. Kaiser...
Zeprex. The U.S. Plywood Corp. has bought the National Brick Corp. to convert it to manufacture Zeprex, a porous building material that looks like concrete, and is almost as strong, but can be chopped, sawed, and nailed like wood. Composed of cement, water and chemicals, Zeprex is only one-fifth as heavy as concrete but is said to insulate ten times as well, can be used for making walls, ceilings and floors. Until U.S. production begins early next year, Zeprex will be imported from Sweden, where it was invented...