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...automotive engineers chuckled over observations made in Manhattan by President William B. Stout of the American Society of Automotive Engineers. "The best way to make the present day car ride easy," declared President Stout, "is to put a lot of weight in the back end. Four hundred pounds of cement in the back seat helps a lot, but if we can put the engine back there and save the weight of the cement we get a better ride, better traction and much more room available in the body of the vehicle. . . . This gives a much better art possibility for appearance...
Outside the convention hall a group of Negro intellectuals silently picketed for an anti-lynching resolution by standing motionless with ropes around their necks. Despite speeches, despite resolutions, despite picketing, by far and away the most important purpose of the Cummings Conference on Crime was to cement Federal and local police into "one great big family...
...Club. New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. to sit on the show's cattle department directorate, Dutchess County's Oakleigh Thome to see what his Eastern Aberdeen Anguses would do this year. Daily from Saturday to Saturday 35,000 visitors swarmed up & down the Temple's broad cement ramps, past rows & rows of freshly curried swine, sheep, steers, beef cows, rows & rows of the cream of the corn crops, prime kernels of wheat, oats. rye, barley...
...this time, when Germany most needs the support of the world, France is busying herself building cement trenches and machine gun nests on her frontier, and supporting a fleet of 5,000 military planes in deadly fear that Germany is secretly preparing for war. And yet it is only the politicians and newspapers of Paris that seem to fear and imagine this war, for again and again in the frontier provinces," Mr. Villard said. "I have found the peasants and towns people in perfectly friendly relations with the Germans...
Members of the Maintenance Department were hard at work for several days last week putting up a new gate across the drive-way leading into Kirkland and Eliot House. The work involved placing four six-inch pipes in cement foundations and connecting these pipes with heavy chains. The new creation was pronounced sufficient to keep out all traffic likely to invade the premises over the Army Game week...