Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ling again complied with a request she seldom refuses -the urgent request of a visiting Wellesley alumna for audience. Audience with China's First Lady is always at tea. Tea was served last week in the First Lady's small, closely guarded red brick and grey cement house at Nanking, her husband's capital. Why does she never join him in the field? Why have they no children? What is her chief interest? Impossible though it might seem to ask at least two of these questions, they have all been answered to Wellesley alumnae during the past...
...same type of floor which has caused the altercation now was laid in Eliot House last Spring without any quibble by the cement workers who quietly went about their work without the carpenters noticing it. Until the strike is ended work on the new chapel can not proceed...
Exempt from this may be some commodities (perhaps wheat and corn), some manufactured goods and a variety of miscellaneous products (flour, cement) which have foreign competition. The actual increase to the roads might be nearer 6% as measured by gross freight revenues. And the Commission moves slowly; Depression continues; many months must pass before any increase can be translated to earnings. Hence a nervous psychology has developed in the minds of investors toward rail bonds. Part of this psychology has been due to misunderstanding of newspaper headlines saying that many rail bonds may soon be "illegal...
...Raynolds had reached the age of 28 without getting one of his stories published. Born in Santa Fe, N. Mex., in the room in the Governor's Palace where the late Author Lew Wallace is supposed to have worked on Ben Hur, he toiled in coal mines, a cement mill, a silver mine, on a trade magazine; but kept his literary ambitions. Though a graduate of Lafayette he spent two earlier years at Princeton, where the Nassau Literary Magazine encouraged him by accepting a sonnet, a sketch. A year ago he left his editorial job, took his wife...
...cement international relations, not to advance the cause of commercial aviation, not for money or glory, James Goodwin Hall, War pilot, flew last week from Long Island to Havana in 23 min. less than Captain Frank Hawks's record, and back in 8 min. more than the Hawks' record. His cause: to arouse interest in "The Crusaders," anti-Prohibition organization of which he is Manhattan chieftain. His plane, a fast Lockheed Altair painted yellow, blue & white, bears on its side the shield of the Crusaders with the legend "Help End Prohibition...