Piercy, Willis Duff · New York, Charles E. Merrill company · leaf 159
tons; 18,000coke furnaces; over 100,000 acres of land; and 125lake vessels and several small railroads. The Corpora-tion employs over 150,000 men, to whom it pays inwages annually over $120,000,000. AVhen on a wet morning one puts on rubbers and arain coat, one scarcely wonders about the history… … Steel Framework of the Flatiron Building, New York City 158 INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES lead pencil marks. It was imported into GreatBritain and sold for this purpose, and because of thisproperty its name was changed to rubber. The cor-rect name of the material now is caoutchouc, thoughits common…
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