Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greenfield, Mass...
...statue was completed, set up temporarily in Paris. France's gift was the statue itself. The base, a mass of almost solid granite designed by famed Architect Richard Morris Hunt, was to be provided by the U. S. In the winter of 1884-85 the base was less than half built and funds were completely exhausted. To the rescue came exuberant Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World. With screaming editorials, cartoons, prize contests, fancy dress balls, all the impedimenta of modern publicity, Publisher Pulitzer had the $100,000 necessary to finish Liberty's pedestal oversubscribed...
Famed for its early voting is the town of New Ashford, Mass., which has been first in the U. S. to count and report its handful of ballots in every Presidential election since 1916. Such promptness and its attendant national publicity have been carefully fostered for New Ashford by the Berkshire Eagle, published in Pittsfield about twelve miles away. Last week the newspaper, in danger of losing its prize story to Radio, saved it by an ingenious scheme...
Last week a company called Parabond Corp. of America, in Cambridge, Mass., disclosed its novel solution, which has been adopted by Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts. Parabond is a rubber latex compound poured into the expansion joints, where it jells. To prevent the usual separation from the concrete, it has a strong adhesive mixture. To prevent bulging, it is thickly interlarded with puffed wheat. The porous globules of puffed wheat constitute bubbles in the mixture, permitting the latex to give without forming a ridge across the highway...
Died. Thomas Cochran, 65, partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of heart disease; in Bedford, N. Y. On his statement that General Motors stock was selling cheap in 1926, it rocketed from 189 to 214½. To Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he gave $10,000,000, including a bird sanctuary, the Addison Art Gallery...