Word: cements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufacturers of Portland Cement are celebrating the 100th anni- versary of their industry...
...total output. For iron and steel products, $464,955,000 was spent, of which $383,990,000 went for iron and steel castings and $80,965,000 for steel rails. Purchases of copper, zinc, lead, etc., came to $57,245,000; lubricating oil and grease, $15,678,000; and cement $6,120,000. The sum of $344,394,000 was spent for miscellaneous materials, including ballast, groceries, meat, canned goods, brooms, matches, pencils, typewriters and various supplies...
...partner and friendly rival. To take a working model, a movement is on foot in Worcester, Mass., to send a challenge to Worcester, England. This challenge will include a statement of the historical factors which have brought the two communities together and of the belief that the "best cement between man and man--is the spirit of sportsmanship...
...article on International sport, Captain Percy Redfern Creed has expressed in words the unarticulated and perhaps unconscious theory behind every enterprise which brings different nationalities together on the athletic field. He has gone even further, by proposing to create from sport the cement with which the war-torn peoples of the world may again be bound together in mutual respect and confidence...
...wields an influence exceeded by few men in America. At one time, he sat at the council table of railroad executives during the railroad strike; he acted as adviser to the coal operators during the coal strike; he was conferring with cement manufacturers who were under indictment for an alleged violation of the anti-trust law; he was attempting, as the representative of the American producers of Cuban sugar, to secure what these organizations believed to be reasonable tariff; and finally, he was giving counsel to the heads of the oil industry, which was under investigation by a Senatorial committee...