Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin Locomotive Works joyfully announced : "We have just received an order for a locomotive from the Philippines. It amounts to $25,000." Last year no U. S. locomotive builder received an order except American Locomotive. That one was built in Alco's Montreal plant for a Brazilian cement company...
...adjoining columns of many a morning newssheet appeared parallel accounts 1) reporting the Administration's plans for raising prices and relaxing the anti-trust laws to prevent useless competition; 2) reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ickes, having opened ten sealed bids for 400,000 barrels of cement for Boulder Dam. found them all uniformly $1.29 a barrel, up 20? since two month? ago. Angered, Mr. Ickes demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether the companies had entered into illegal price-fixing agreements. Not inconsistent were the two Government actions, but evidence of the Government's dual...
...last quarter of his trip (through a country of "real estate agents, Quaker Oats, electrocutions, cement roads, motorists and Gideon Bibles") Tschiffely spends few words. With pardonable pride, however, he tells how Mancha, his spirit still unbroken after some 10,000 mi., convinced a Governors Island sergeant he was unridable. After a Jimmy Walker reception in Manhattan, all three sailed back to the Argentine in grand style, Tschiffely to a triumphant homecoming, Mancha and Gato to a carefree old age on their native pampas...
...Houses. In Hazleton, Pa. on the outskirts of the anthracite region, stands a neat rectangular little dwelling painted sky green and as simple as a candy box. Under its flat roof of rolled steel-&-aluminum are a living room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bath. The cellarless foundation is aero-cement; the frame, steel; the walls, asbestos composition. Six unskilled workmen assembled it in a month. Its total cost, with heat, light and plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing...
Centre of the mumbo-jumbo belt is green Brusa where orthodoxy flared. It lies across the Sea of Marmora from Istanbul (Constantinople). It was the first Ottoman capital and might have been the capital of the Turkish Republic instead of white-cement, Babbittized Angora, had it not been too near...