Word: cements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steel-Cement. Building contractors who go shopping for steel usually also have to go shopping for cement. Last week United States Steel Corp. offered to exchange some $31,000,000 of its stock for Atlas Portland Cement Co. which produces 19,000,000 barrels a year. Other cement companies realized that from the combination will come potent competition, but also potent support of a higher cement tariff...
...study of the operating results and policies of building material dealers, covering the year 1928, has just been completed by the Bureau of Business Research of Harvard University. This survey was undertaken at the instance of the Atlas Portland Cement Company, which furnished funds to defray the costs. The report, which has been published as Bulletin No. 81 of the bureau is based on statements from 369 dealers...
Next, General Ho removed his headquarters from the city he was supposed to be defending to a strongly built cement factory on the opposite side of the river. Finally he sent an airplane to drop leaflets over the principal enemy force, encamped only 25 miles upstream, the famed "Ironsides Army" of General Chang Fa-K'uei (TIME, Oct. 14). The leaflets shamelessly offered following itemized bribes...
...Portland, Idaho got in Oregon's cement mixer and came out smooth and moist. Idaho 7, Oregon...
...Voice did not answer, and on the Democratic side, foxy little Field Marshal Simmons began massing his troops behind the Borah irregulars to capture perhaps not only Flexible Tariff Ridge but some of the industrial salients-Chateau de Steel, Fort Cement, Brickopolis, Woolensville, perhaps even Manufacturing City...