Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Professor Walter Francis Reid, 81, inventor of smokeless powder, onetime (1910) president of the Society of Chemical Industry, research chemist (linoleum, cement, silver on backs of mirrors); of "extreme debility;" in Kingston. Surrey, England. A recluse for the last two years, Professor Reid lived in a cold, decaying mansion on milk and well-water, saw no one, was found in a stupor, his hair straggling to his shoulders, his beard to his waist...
...studied sculpture under James Eraser and took a course at Manhattan's Art Students' League. In 1907 she set up a studio at the end of MacDougal Alley next to that of Daniel Chester French. MacDougal Alley is a cement-paved cul de sac in Greenwich Village, lined with little brick houses that once were the stables for the great houses on Washington Square. Mrs. Whitney certainly did not invent Greenwich Village as the centre of New York's art life, but her coming there attracted public attention to it. From the first her studio...
...foot wireless towers, mounted on either end of the roof of the New Geography Building on Divinity Avenue, have just been erected. Work was started on them last Thursday, after the two steel bases had been bolted to the bottom of the cement balustrade in the two east corners of the roof, at the north and south ends of the building...
...great inventor, both in life and in business, were the two youngest sons. To them is willed in equal shares the capital stock of Thomas A. Edison Inc.; the Edison Laboratory; all the Edison lands (but Mrs. Edison was previously given the home in Llewellyn Park); stock in Edison Cement Corp. and an equal share with the four others in a trust fund composed of U. S., railroad and mortgage bonds; also the residue of the estate, with power to distribute it among their brothers & sisters as they wish. As executors the two youngest sons may sell or mortgage...
...tower bases, which are at present being completed, have been constructed by fastening there steel I-beams together in the shape of a triangle, and bolting them to the bottom of the cement balustrade in the two east corners of the roof, at the north and south ends of the building...