Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rapid progress made during the summer on the new additions to Langdell Hall enabled returning students to see what the complete structure will look like in 1929. Already the steel frames for the new halls are erected and the walls are started. The finished building will be more than twice the size of the present structure, and will provide space for a large increase in library facilities, study rooms, lecture halls and a court room...
...supreme achievement of "Annie Laurie'' is a biography of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of W. R. H.), printed on parchment in California, illustrated with superb steel engravings, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, and now being bound at Leipzig, Germany, with gold edges all 'round, velvet linings, and hand tooled pigskin covers. Reputed cost...
...Steel. Neat ingot after neat ingot will have come out of the U. S. steel mills. 48,000,000 times before the year has ended, predicted J. R. Nutt, president of the Union Trust Company of Cleveland, last week, in Trade Winds, his bank's magazine. Automobiles, building and railroad equipment and petroleum industry doings will cause the mills to produce 1,000,000 more ingots than were pressed in 1926, the record year...
With the approaching completion of two new floors of steel stacks in the Widener Library additional space will be provided for more than a quarter of a million volumes, according to Superintendent Frank Carney. The original plans made allowances for two floors, upon a level lower than the present A and B floors; but no movement was made toward the completion of these floors until further contributions could be received. Merely the steel superstructure supporting the above eight floors was in place...
...recent contribution of Mrs. Hamilton Rice, formerly Mrs. George B. Widener, the donor of the original building, made possible the renewal of operations. Workmen are now occupied in installing the unit construction steel supports and shelves, similar in form to the stacks on the above floors. The floors of high grade Vermont marble are in place and it is expected that in two months time the addition will be settled and ready for occupancy. An added space of three feet between the two new floors insures better ventilation and less crowded over head space than in the old stacks...