Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official report to Congress by the Democratic National Committee revealed the names of several corporations with expensive bookish tastes -most of them also sellers of the kind of goods of which the Government buys quantities: Bethlehem Steel Co. (20 copies); Automatic Voting Machine Corp. (12); Monolith and Medusa Portland Cement Companies. Hammermill Paper Co. (10 each); California Portland Cement Co., Deere & Co. (8 each); The Carborundum Co., Inland Steel Co., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (4 each). Other bibliophiles: Walter P. Chrysler (50 copies), Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, International Association of Machinists, American Federated Hose...
...Room, whose fluted columns and mosaic floor had just been finished, Chancellor Bowman invited representatives of his students, trustees and faculty to watch a belated cornerstone laying. With Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully and Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick looking on, the chancellor gave the stone a proud pat of cement and two husky seniors shoved it into place...
...earmarked for flood and drought control; Wilburn Cartwright of McAlester, Okla. who demanded $150,000,000 be earmarked for roads; Alfred Beiter of Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn had the backing of the lobbyists of the steel and cement industries and the American Association of General Contractors. What! cried the earmarking bloc. Billions for beans for the unemployed and not one cent for pork...
Danish engineers, turned out by the State College of Engineering, have cement and girders in their blood. For a hundred years they have been considered among the best in the world, and their reputation increased still more when they built a harbor in Gdynia, Poland which has since become one of the crucial ports of Europe. Boatbuilding, too, comes easy to a Dane...
Last year, a similar situation presented itself during reading period and exams although the Freshman Class were the primary sufferers. Electric drills and cement mixers were called into play to repair the wall around the yard. So great was the disturbance that many Yardlings were forced to leave Cambridge in order to do any studying...