Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made from 20% to 75% of weight of ordinary concrete. Authorities expect it to reduce by almost one-fourth the weight of steel necessary to support a building. Aerocrete floors have been put in a new addition to Bethlehem Steel Corp. at Bethlehem, Pa. and in the Golden Hill Building, Manhattan...
...Dodge Corp., building statisticians and trade-paper publishers, announced that in 37 States east of the Rockies new contracts during July were down 39% from June, 44% from July a year ago, while the decline for the first seven months was 22%. McGraw-Hill's Engineering News-Record reported that engineering construction has suffered 17% through the country as a whole. New England alone maintains last year's level; the Midwest has suffered the most with a 42% decline...
Editor Gene Howe of the Amarillo, Tex. News-Globe, ambitious son of famed Editor Ed ("Sage of Potato Hill") Howe of the Atchison, Kan. Globe (retired 1927), has made himself widely known as a rambunctious cow-&-oil town journalist...
...Lyon,* third and youngest daughter of the Earl & Countess of Strathmore and Kingshorne, lay in turreted Glamis castle last week, where according to tradition and Shakespeare, MacBeth did murder Duncan to become King of Scotland. All Britain held its breath. Proud, loyal Scots piled mountainous bonfires on Hunter's hill and neighboring heights which rise above the castle, made ready to send the news blazing over the mountain tops. Not in generations has a potential heir to the throne been born north of the Tweed. The British postoffice, guardian of Britain's telephones, prepared a special wire from Glamis castle...
Died. Joseph Gilpin Pyle, 77, of St. Paul, Minn., librarian of the James Jerome Hill Reference Library; onetime (1899-1903) editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and of the St. Paul Globe (1895-98, 1903-05); in St. Paul...