Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paramount and Fenway: "Now and Forever"--Shirley Temple in a fairly entertaining story which attempts to prove that nothing is better able than a child to cement the bonds of true love. "The Case of the Howling Dog"--a very complicated mystery which is about mediocre...
...only delayed but the fact was that Brazil last week was enjoying an undeniable boom. By the light of burning coffee mounds, which when once ignited may burn for weeks, buildings were going up in the City of São Paulo at the rate of 500 per month. Cement mills were grinding 24 hours per day. Flour and sugar mills were unable to fill orders. Brazil is still a one-crop country but the Government's rigid control of foreign exchange has acted as a protective tariff stimulating domestic industry. Low coffee prices have encouraged cotton growing...
Glass Jars and Cement Tubs...
Over in the Biological Institute the instructors in Zoology are principally interested in small insects and the lowest forms of life. It is estimated that there are over two billion one-celled animals of various types kept by the Department in glass jars and long cement tubs. There are, however, 50 large mussels, 75 ordinary frogs and three African bullfrogs, 300 minnows, 500 gold flies, two crayfish, 50 leeches, 5000 tadpoles, 125 lizards of different kinds, about 100,000 worms of different varieties, 300 tropical fish, 300 mice, and 15 rats included in the collection...
Such devotion to duty did not pass unnoticed by "Uncle George'' Cameron, who made a fortune in the cement business long before he inherited the Chronicle from his father-in-law in 1925. Last week he appeared at the Chronicle with 161 jewelers' boxes. Inside each little box was a small gold medal inscribed, within laurel...