Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home the President extracted his biggest piece of 1934 recovery legislation-the National Housing Act. Of the 9,500,000 persons in the U. S. still out of jobs, more than half used to work in the capital goods industries (machinery, structural steel, lumber, ships, cement, locomotives, stone). PWA was to have provided relief for the heavy industries but it turned out to be too costly, too slow. NRA tended to decrease the demand for capital goods by raising prices and limiting production. The Securities Act discouraged industry from borrowing money to buy capital goods. With the construction of homes...
...freshly gathered fruit by suspended animation of both enzymes and micro-organisms.- Researcher Charles S. Ash of California Packing Corp. Tartly the New York Times summed up the symposium: "The responses reveal 300 leaders fluttering unimaginatively on the ground. ... It is impossible for them to conceive Utopia without our cement, our improved bakery, our metal furniture, our tractors, our rustless wire-rope, our quick-drying lacquers...
...workers are accustomed to wash the shop up a bit, carry out of a few tons of rubbish, and then boast 'Our plant is just as clean as those of Ford.' This, of course, is nonsense. Ford has his smooth cement floors washed with soap three and four times a day. If the paint comes off anywhere a man shows up immediately with a brush and touches up the spot...
...Freshman Jubilee last night held no charms for George Ford '37, star athlete of the Freshman Class. Ford, while in the process of decorating the Union for the festive occasion toppled from an 18-foot ladder and came down with a crash on the cement floor. As he struck the floor, the ladder, not to be outdone, came down...
Ontario's Premier George Stewart Henry promptly echoed: "This will help to cement amicable relations...