Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where the Lehigh River joins the Delaware they strap New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Then up through the cliff-hugged Lehigh Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet...
Currituck Sound. N. C., is dotted around with cement-floored pits where men of leisure take their ease in wintry weeks to shoot wild fowl. Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is no man of leisure. Last week, waiting on an island in Currituck for a Navy plane to fetch him and his dead ducks, Mr. Robinson grew impatient. Currituck was freezing. The Navy must be run. Up he got and helped his guide push, pole and slide their boat through Currituck ice to the mainland...
...Trenton), the Laib Co. (factories at Louisville), and the Columbia Sanitary Mfg. Co. (factories also at Louisville). The J. L. Mott Iron Works, founded in 1828 at Mott Haven, N. Y. (now part of New York City), was the first U. S. company to make sanitary equipment. Portland Cement. Peerless Portland Cement Co. of Detroit and New Egyptian Portland Cement Co. of Port Huron, Mich., have agreed to consolidate; combined assets...
...Magnesite is an ore much mined in the U. S. In its crude form it is used for steel making. With lime, it is a filler in rubber making. It is also used in fireproof cement and insulating materials. . . . The President raised the U. S. tariff 50% on imported magnesite...
Foreign Loans. For the development of corporate and civic enterprises-largely waterpower, paper and cement activities-and to assist the stabilization of foreign currencies, U. S. bankers loaned to Europe and the Far East $1,318,700,000 for the ten months ending Oct. 31-more than was negotiated for the entire year of 1926. Wendell E. Thorne, financial expert of the Department of Commerce, who announced the total in Washington last week, forecasted that at the conclusion of this year U. S. loans abroad would aggregate $12,500,000,000. To Whom. To Germany was advanced...