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...Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug chippers kept on, year after year, enlarging the 12-ft. rock tube to hold cast-iron tunnel sections 44 ft. in diameter. When all the cast-iron rings had been linked together, cement was pumped under pressure into a one-foot space around the gigantic metal tube. Lighting for the tunnel will be divided between two power stations, each illuminating alternate bulbs so that if one station fails, every other bulb will keep shining...
After two retreats, One from the "fair trade practices" of service industry codes and the other from the general policy of price-fixing, NRA last week beat a third retreat. Fertile source of NRA criticism was that time & again bids from different companies for cement, steel and other goods needed by the Government have been exactly the same to the penny. Bidders explained that unless they filed prices available to the public and to all their competitors, they could not legally underbid one another for government contracts...
...building is to put animal comfort first, make everything look as unzooish as possible. Like rural Whipsnade in England (TIME, June 18), Chicago's zoo goes easy on fences. Visitors will tingle at the sight of lions, elephants and bears padding in the open over imitation rock (cement sprayed on steel laths), but they will be safe behind invisible moats 12½ ft. deep & wide...
...home the President extracted his biggest piece of 1934 recovery legislation-the National Housing Act. Of the 9,500,000 persons in the U. S. still out of jobs, more than half used to work in the capital goods industries (machinery, structural steel, lumber, ships, cement, locomotives, stone). PWA was to have provided relief for the heavy industries but it turned out to be too costly, too slow. NRA tended to decrease the demand for capital goods by raising prices and limiting production. The Securities Act discouraged industry from borrowing money to buy capital goods. With the construction of homes...
...basing-point trick" works to the advantage of big lumber millers. In one case a New England contractor was required to pay mill costs plus a "phantom" rail carrying charge on a 400-mi. haul, although the mill was only 72 mi. away. Same practice was prevalent in the cement industry. Biggest Darrow blast was directed against the retail code. Originally containing specific provisions against "loss-leaders" and unfair advertising of consistently lowered prices, the code was "stealthily" emasculated, said the Darrow Board, between its adoption and final promulgation. Responsible, hinted the report, was the influence of one potent "socially...