Word: portland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...department heads for the play are as follows: G. D. Debevoise '26, of New York City, manager; C. F. Darlington Jr. '26, of Mount Kisco, N. Y., assistant manager; W. C. Gray '26, of Dedham, assisting manager; E. W. Marshall '26, of Portland, Me., program manager; W. I. Nichols '26, of Wilton, Conn., publicity manager; A. G. Cooke '26, of New York City, assistant publicity manager; J. A. Halsted '26, of Syracuse, N. Y., ticket manager. The other assistant managers, as well as the electrician, staff manager, and property man, will be announced soon. In the meantime there will...
...Marshall of Portland...
...Marshall of Portland...
...great day of Portland cement did not set in until cheap structural steel became a commonplace. The reinforced concrete building then came in, as well as concrete roads, concrete canal locks and railroad abutments and many other forms of substitution for solid stonework. Without concrete no less than fabricated steel, the modern skyscraper could never have been built...
Aspdin named his material "Portland cement" because of its resemblance to a type of building stone then commonly quarried on the Isle of Portland. Although the inventor's process has subsequently been improved upon in many ways, the name he gave the product has remained unchanged...