Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Federal Trade Commission accused the Cement Institute and 75 U. S. cement manufacturers, who produce at least 95% of the cement made in the U. S., of a nationwide system of price maintenance which retards recovery, adds to taxation and hogs unnecessarily large chunks of Government money released for building public works. According to the FTC, Federal and State agencies have been unable to get competitive bids in cement. South Dakota built its own cement mill as the only means of coping with the situation. The Tennessee Valley Authority got competitive bids only by threatening to follow...
...sold yearly and Liquid Carbonic Corp. handles most of it. Made in 36 plants in the U. S. and Canada, its gas is delivered to 10,000 U. S. beverage bottlers in 400,000 steel cylinders. There is a steadily widening use for liquid carbonic in asbestos composition shingles, cement products, fire extinguishers, coal blasting, air-cooling. At low temperatures under pressure, liquid carbonic forms what is known as dry ice. Selling dry ice since 1931, Liquid Carbonic now dominates the current annual U. S. production of 200,000,000 lb., most of which goes to ice-cream companies...
...mortuary chamber purchased by William Powell, the inconsolable actor who was to have become Miss Harlow's fourth husband. Thus was concluded another notable interment at the institution which Promoter Hubert Eaton has made as indispensable to Hollywood's great dead as a footprint in the cement at Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre is to its living...
Figures carved from wet sand are vulnerable to rain, wind and tide. Long ago the sand sculptors learned to mix one part of cement with three or four parts of beach, and their creations will withstand two or three years of hail or high water. But last week another force threatened to wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week...
...somewhere around $50 each, after rent and assistants' fees of $25. Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand-modeled such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino, Gilda Gray, Portraitist William Chase (who told him to "keep it up"). He specializes in monumental masterpieces...