Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resemble the article he had hoped for (see p. 10). To find out what was wrong with it, to gauge its potential effect upon Business and the Cost of Living, the President set expert analysts to work. His own first impression of the duties on shingles, lumber, cement and sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration's whole farm program. Ohio's Senator Fess attacked the party loyalty cf Idaho...
Building Materials. On farms are houses, barns, outbuildings, for which a husbandman must buy bricks, cement, lumber, glass, shingles. By its committee the House was asked to increase tariff rates on these building materials. From the free list brick was made dutiable at $1.25 per 1,000. A tax of 8¢ per 100 Ib. was laid on cement. While fir, pine, spruce and hemlock were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley...
...come the loudest demands for added protection for industry. Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association and G. O. P. campaign cash-collector extraordinary, had been in the forefront of an old-style drive for higher rates (TIME, March 25). He had secured duties on brick and cement, had permanently pegged pig iron at $1.12½ per ton. But he still sounded dissatisfied when he said: "The few raises fall short of meeting the requirements ... of Pennsylvania's industries along lines indicated in the Republican platform adopted at Kansas City." He intimated that provisions for valuation (see below...
Died. Edward Francis Carry, 62, of Chicago, president of Pullman Co., financier (banks, mail orders, cement, tools), Irish history student, onetime stenographer; of cerebral embolism; in Chicago...
President of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, Mr. Grundy raised many a useful dollar for the G.O.P. on the expectation that supreme tariff protection would be given Pennsylvania manufactures, especially textiles and cement. So potent has Mr. Grundy been tariff-tailoring that when Utah's Reed Smoot. the chief Senate tariff designer, was asked about revision last month during his visit to Herbert Hoover in Florida, he said: "I don't know. I haven't seen...