Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cement stocks were holding their own with aircraft and oil. Riding the construction boom, they have doubled in price in the last year, while extra dividends and stock splits have become common. In the last month alone, North American Cement Corp. split its stock 4 for 3 and General Portland Cement split...
There was plenty of reason to be enthusiastic about the industry. The 157 active U.S. plants are operating at 90% of capacity and producing 21 million bbls. of Portland* cement monthly. Last year they shipped 280 million bbls., 20 million more than in 1953 and 80 million more than in 1949. And with a record-breaking $39.5 billion worth of construction scheduled in 1955, industry leaders are embarking on big expansion programs. Lehigh Portland Cement Co. of Allentown, Pa. is spending $15 million to boost its annual capacity by 3.000,000 bbls.; Universal Atlas Cement Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary...
...mixture of lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide, first made in 1824 by an English mason, Joseph Aspdin. The greyish color of the compound, cooked in a kiln, reminded him of stone quarried from the Isle of Portland off the British coast...
...Eisenhower got caught in the propwash of an airline battle last week. As a result, he came within an ace of knocking Northwest Airlines off one of its most prized routes. The dogfight was between Northwest and Pan American World Airways over which should fly the Pacific between Seattle-Portland and Hawaii, a profitable run that both have been operating on a temporary basis since 1948. The Civil Aeronautics Board finally reached a unanimous decision: Northwest should have the route alone. But when the CAB recommendation went to the White House a fortnight ago, it ran into opposition...
Died. Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning (for Strange Holiness in 1936) Maine poet, novelist (Lost Paradise, Red Sky in the Morning), regional historian (Kennebec: Cradle of Americans), lecturer and professor of English at Maine's Bowdoin College: of a heart attack; in Portland, Me. Raised on a Maine saltwater farm, Coffin began writing poetry while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, soon became a popular favorite for his nostalgic ballads of Maine life and Maine people. An ardent believer in poetry as a popular art, he read his works to audiences all over the U.S., inveighed against...