Word: corks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectroscopic laboratory. President Karl Taylor Compton of the Institute and Professor George Russell Harrison, who has charge of the new shop, showed the physicists about. The new building is constructed like and really is an icebox. The outer walls-4 ft. thick-are of brick, 8 in. of cork, an air space and concrete. Within that well-insulated casing is an inner structure of ten rooms. The inner building has its own, separate foundations, is further insulated from the outer husk by 6 in. of dead air. Thermostat control and automatic air conditioners maintain the ten rooms of the icebox...
...Cork city went with a pop for her hero, President Cosgrave. County Clare whooped in Mr. de Valera. And Tipperary! Sure and in Tipperary they elected who but Dan Breen himself...
...praise to Camden, N.J. for containing the factories of RCA-Victor Co., Campbell Soup Co., Armstrong Cork Co., Jantzen Knitting Mills, New York Shipbuilding Co., Congoleum-Nairn Inc. et al., and the house in which Poet Walt Whitman died...
...coordination of such an addition with units already complete and varying among themselves is a delicate piece of planning. The many details that enter into the construction of an art museum and especially one for University use, from cork floors to linen wall coverings, for example, will involve a series of many conferences between, the architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott and the directors, Dr. A. W. Forbes '95 and Professor P. J. Sachs...
...Eagle Brand writing paper that President Sam (Alias "Sidney Louis," TIME, July 13) Willson, sent me and with a Victor typewriter that Vice President Al Buhler, The Victor Adding Machine Co. sent me. My feet rest on a choice "Quaker" rug that Dwight L. Armstrong. Vice President The Armstrong Cork Co. sent me and I marvel at the whiteness of the Murphy Da Cote enamel on the window and door trim that Salesmanager H. H. Pratt, Murphy Varnish Co. sent me - while Doyle Advertising Manager The Lloyd Mfg. Co. rocks contentedly in a trick rockerless rocker Lloyd Loom Chair...