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...mostly unionized, put together about seven billion dollars worth of buildings. Because of new construction methods, every year they lose some of their wages, builders lose some of their $7,000,000,000, through jurisdictional strikes between trade unions. Thus, many a job has been delayed while plasterers and cement workers argued as to where floors stopped and walls began; while carpenters challenged the right of metal workers to put up metallic window and door frames; while ordinary laborers denied to carpenters the privilege of tearing down their own temporary scaffoldings...
...supervision, plans will be prepared by some 1,500 Soviet architects and engineers for four motor car, truck and cycle factories; nine plants for tractors and farm implements; then for six asbestos, corundum, and graphite factories; two locomotive works; 15 machine tool, cash register, and typewriter factories; 24 cement factories; 126 sawmills; 106 woodworking plants; 27 glass factories; 35 spinning mills; 15 woolen mills; 13 clothing factories; 112 shoe factories; 15 paper mills; 56 food products plants. How many billion dollars would be spent on these establishments after 1930 was not announced, nor was the obviously huge compensation which will...
Brass-helmeted firemen, rushing to the rescue, found the Glen Theatre's doors blocked solid with bodies "like a wall of cement bags." Cutting a hole through the roof, smashing windows they formed a living chain to pass out 70 small bodies, many trampled beyond recognition under stout Scotch boots. Inside the theatre, a few calm children were still alive...
...which would be the presentation of geological relationships there would be provided big geological cross sections in various parts of the model. These might be in the form of trenches following state boundaries or at other appropriate places. The formations would probably be indicated by the use of colored cement or some other permanent material. On the ground itself there would be outcrops of actual rocks. Specimens of suitable size could be garnered through the help of State surveys, a number of which are represented on the committee, and by individuals in all parts of the country. These specimens would...
...Steel-Cement. Building contractors who go shopping for steel usually also have to go shopping for cement. Last week United States Steel Corp. offered to exchange some $31,000,000 of its stock for Atlas Portland Cement Co. which produces 19,000,000 barrels a year. Other cement companies realized that from the combination will come potent competition, but also potent support of a higher cement tariff...