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. 
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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-