The story of Pittsburgh: Cement and concrete

Cement and concrete (Vol. 1, nr. 8)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623277

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239793

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Cement and concrete

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 8

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1921

Scope:: [ca. 18] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Growth in Shipments of Universal Cement

Collection:: Economics Books

GROWTH IN SHIPMENTS OF UNIVERSAL CEMENT Shipments of Universal cement have grown from a few thousand sacks in 1900 to over 45,000,000 sacks n 1920. 3 1 32,000 Sacks 6412 000 Sacks £ 4 or © 3S So Nn 0 26,716,000 Sacks 32.708 000 Sacks 45,600,000 Sacks UNIVERSAL CEMENT IS UNIVERSALLY USED Universal cement has been used extensively in many of :he country’s largest construction projects. In Pittsburgh, for example, a few of many include the Oliver Building, Kaufmann’s Store, Kaufmann & Baer Store, Rosenbaum Store, Jenkins Arcade, William Penn Hotel, Union Arcade, ouildings of Carnegie Institute of Technology, and such ngineering works as the new Point Bridge, the Atherton Avenue Bridge and the Larimer Avenue Bridge, which is »ne of the world’s longest concrete arches. Students of the industrial and transportation situation n the Pittsburgh District know how indispensable the local rivers are to the city, and how important it is that they be kept in such shape as to be navigable practically all year. The Universal Portland Cement Co. has furnished in the past 10 years about four million sacks of cement for the construction of dams in the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers. Universal cement was used in the con-

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