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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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icps of materials will be lowered. Wages in many lines have been reducedrather severely during the past fewmonths. Doubtless, many employers feelthat they must come down still more. Un-questionably, in some places and in someindustries, where wages are still at thepeak, some reduction will be made, buta time of improving business is not a When writing- to Advertisers please mention this magazine. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 129 A Clause That CancelsThe Loss of Millions There are millions of dollars wasted every year in thiscountiy through plate glass breakage due to faulty setting.This condition has no right to exist. This great waste ofmoney, this burden bonie by merchant and insuiance com-panies alike—and indirectly by everyone—can be prevented,by making the following clause a part of all store frontspecifications: GLAZING SPECIFICATION AH Metal Sash, Corner Bars, Division Bars and Self-Ad justing Setting Blocks Usedin Store Fronts Must Be Listed by the Underwriters Laboratories.
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A is the point where the outer memberpresses against the glass when the deli-cate watch-like turning of the key at Cbrings the glass automatically into con-tact with the rabbet of gutter B slidingon the anti-friction Murnane Self-Ad-justing Setting Block. Here is the logical answer to the jtlate gla^s breakage evil. Give it your heaity sui>-port. It will materially reduce the total wastage. All Zouri Key-Set Sash, Corner Division Bars and Self-Adjusting Setting Blocks havebeen listed by the Underwriters Laboratories. The Sill Covering D extends from theinner side of the rabbet to the lower edgeof the face, eliminating joints—perpen-dicular screws or nails—positively pro-tecting the wood against deterioration,for leakage is impossible. A-ik eithei- of the firms listed below for full particulars of Zouri Construction COBBLEDICK-KIBBE GLASS COMPANY Oakland and San Francisco CALIFORNIA PAINT ^ GLASS CO. Los Angeles, California Architects are invited to visit our exhibii at 77 OFarr

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