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	<title>The Roaring Twenties Blog &#187; Construction</title>
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	<description>A Snapshot of Life in the 1920's</description>
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		<title>Real Estate Advice 1927</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EIGHT MAXIMS FOR REAL ESTATE OPERATORS
HOW to make money handling real estate was recently comprest into eight maxims by W. Burke Harmon, a well-known New York realtor, and reported as follows by the New York World:
1. Never buy for cash. The successful operator invests just as little of his own funds as possible, glad to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineering Achievements of 1929</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ENGINEERING ADVANCEMENTS 1929
Source: Popular Science Monthly &#8211; January 1930
by COLLINS P. BLISS, M.A.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
New York University
FORMAL opening of the eight-mile Cascade Tunnel, the longest railroad tunnel in the United States, ushered in the engineering year of 1929.
Outstanding engineering projects of the year include the great International Bridge at Detroit, longest suspension bridge in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concrete with Bamboo Reinforcing 1923</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONCRETE REINFORCED WITH BAMBOO
Bamboo, which has been chemically treated, is used as a reinforcing for concrete in Japan and, we are told in Concrete (Detroit):
&#8220;According to Henry C. Hitchcock, the American consul, Nagasaki, Japan, the chemicals used in treating the bamboo are apparently known only to the few who have made use of them. Bamboo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing Housing Costs 1930</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoover Helps the Home-Builder
TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT EASIER for the average man or woman to obtain a home&#8221;â€”that, in the phrase of the New York World, is the object of the White House Conference on home-building and home ownership recently called by President Hoover.
Pointing out that this is the twenty-fourth commission appointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Concrete 1927</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICE CONCRETEâ€”This is the name of a new, porous, astonishingly light building material invented in Finland. Like ordinary concrete, it is composed of cement and sand. Crusht ice or snow is used during the process of mixing. Says Waldemar Kaempffert in the New York Times:
Heat evaporates the water of the melting ice, and the result [...]]]></description>
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