Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufacturers of Portland Cement are celebrating the 100th anni- versary of their industry...
...that a new building material could be produced by mixing pulverized lime and clay in correct proportions and driving out the carbonic acid gas with heat. Aspdin was not a chemist or scientist; and his momentous discovery was made by accidental experimentation. Up until 1872, there was not a Portland cement plant in this country. Today the U. S. industry represents a capital investment of over $300,000,000, employs from 25,000 to 40,000 men, produces annually 25,000,000 tons of cement...
Prior to Oct. 15, she had visited: Pittsfield, Mass.; Schenectady, Syracuse, Batavia and Rochester, N. Y.; Toronto and Hamilton, Can.; Detroit, Jackson and Lansing, Mich., for one-night performances. Future bookings include: Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland (Ore.), Seattle, St. Paul. Madison, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville...
Other additions to the reading material available at the Union have been made, increasing the number of daily papers in the reading room to 36 and the periodicals to 35. The daily papers come from all over the country, from Portland, Maine, to San Francisco. The periodicals include all the leading American weeklies and monthlies and several foreign papers, the French "L'Illustration", and the English "London News" and "Country Life". New papers will be added from time to time and members have been invited to suggest any new papers or magazines which would increase the utility of the library...
...booked. He is expected to speak in St. Louis, in Kansas City, in Chicago, in Cleveland, perhaps in Detroit and in Manhattan. But those matters will be decided later. Meanwhile, Senator Wheeler is concentrating his energies on New England. He expects to speak early in September at Boston, Worcester, Portland, Manchester, Providence, in Connecticut and in northern New York. Evidently the Progressive strategy is to strike at their outlying regions first before centring on the Northwest...