Other sources of information include the National Concrete Masonry Association, 38 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill., the Portland Cement Association, 33 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, Ill., and the Structural Clay Products Association, Washington, D.C..

Products such as PLC ( Portland Limestone Cement ), which incorporate limestone into the mix, are being tested.

The resulting hard substance, called ' clinker ', is then ground with a small amount of gypsum into a powder to make ' Ordinary Portland Cement ', the most commonly used type of cement ( often referred to as OPC ).

* Javed I. Bhatty, F. MacGregor Miller, Steven H. Kosmatka ; editors: Innovations in Portland Cement Manufacturing, SP400, Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Illinois, USA, 2004, ISBN 0-89312-234-3

Phonograph cabinet built with Edison Portland Cement Company | Edison cement, 1912.

* Edison Portland Cement Company

* October 21, 1824 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland Cement.

* October 21 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland Cement.

Portland cement ( often referred to as OPC, from Ordinary Portland Cement ) is the most common type of cement in general use around the world because it is a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco and most non-specialty grout.

The Association of German Cement Manufacturers issued a standard on Portland cement in 1878.

The LHA convinced industry of their self-interest and was able to arrange donations of materials from the Portland Cement Association.

The of upland pasture were donated by Portland Cement to mark European Conservation Year.

The National Portland Cement Company Ltd was formed in 1920.

Its success due to: the incorporation of nearby Birmingham and the beginning of iron ore production there ; the building of the Georgia Pacific Railway from Birmingham to Atlanta ; and the construction of a Portland Cement manufacturing plant in 1906.

Empire was founded in 1923 ; in that year miners formed a tent city while mining a claim originally established by the Pacific Portland Cement Company in 1910.

Companies like Allied Signal and Alpha Portland Cement did build in town, but even so the boom days were now over.

By 2004, both Alpha Portland Cement and Allied Signal were gone, and Ironton had shrunk to the point where there were fewer people living in the whole county than had lived in the city of Ironton 110 years before.

* Holcim Inc. ( Portland Cement )

The Atlas Portland Cement Company was based there, until it was closed in 1982, due largely to foreign competition.

The Atlas Portland Cement Company plant closed in 1982, but city residents many of them former Atlas employees or their descendants — still identify strongly with the company and its history.

Allen also owns two professional sports teams, the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League ( NFL ), and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

** The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109 – 107 to win the National Basketball Association finals four games to two.

Couse's The Captive was shown in 1891 at his first solo exhibition, held at the Portland Art Association in Oregon, and then at the Paris Salon of 1892.

In 1976, the Oil Kings succumbed to the competing Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association and relocated to Portland to become the Winter Hawks, the WCHL's first American franchise.

* National Association membership triples and geographic scope explodes, from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to Portland, Maine.

* Metropolitan Savings Association, Portland and Eugene, Oregon, 1991

The Portland Fire joined the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ) in 2000 as the counterpart to the NBA team the Portland Trail Blazers.

TriMet also links to various local shuttle services operated by the following: Ride Connection, which serves Banks, Gaston, King City and North Plains ; the Swan Island Transportation Management Association ; the Tualatin Transportation Management Association ; Intel ; Nike ; and Oregon Health & Science University, including the Portland Aerial Tram.

The invocation was written by Andrew Lovley, a member of the Southern Maine Association of Secular Humanists who had previously used the invocation in 2009 to invoke an inauguration ceremony for new city officials in South Portland, Maine.

Association for Integrative Studies, Portland, Oregon, October, 2000.

In response to McMahon's expansion, the AWA forged an alliance with several NWA promoters, including Jim Crockett Promotions ( Charlotte, NC ), Mid-South Wrestling ( Oklahoma City, OK ), Pacific Northwest Wrestling ( Portland, OR ), World Class Championship Wrestling ( Dallas, TX ), and the Continental Wrestling Association ( Memphis, TN ).

A fourth glossy magazine, Explore the Pearl, is produced in conjunction with the Pearl District Business Association, and mailed to " high-income Portland Metro households " within Lake Oswego, West Linn, Mountain Park, Lakeridge, Forest Heights, Raleigh Hills, Oak Hills, West Hills, Dunthorpe, and Clark County.

* The Montreal Canadiens beat the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association to win their first Stanley Cup

UCMT purchased several smaller systems within Michigan and Ohio before being censured by the American Transit Association after approaching the city of Portland, Oregon with a similar proposal.

* Pearl District: Portland Oregon Visitors Association

USCA-affiliated clubs in major US cities include the New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, Oakland, Houston, Boston, Detroit, Kansas City, Louisville, Seattle, and Portland Croquet Clubs.

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

For example, Portland, Oregon a U. S. city which has pursued smart growth policies, substantially increased its population density between 1990 and 2000 when other US cities of a similar size were reducing in density.

* US Bancorp Tower, Portland, Oregon, United States, 1983

Also, in the US ASTM C150 Type 5 Portland cement can be used in the mix.

Lieutenant Charles “ Savez ” Read may have been " anchor man " ( graduated last ) in the class of 1860, but his later service to the Confederate States Navy included defending New Orleans, service on CSS Arkansas and CSS Florida, and command of a series of captured Union ships that culminated in seizing the US Revenue Cutter Caleb Cushing in Portland, Maine.

At Portland, I-95 splits off to the north, and I-295 heads northeast paralleling US 1 to Brunswick.

Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States ( US ), raised primarily in Texas, US, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, US, the area in which he first gained popularity.

On 7 June 1942, an advance party of the US 46 Engineer General Service Regiment and 26 Operational Base Unit RAAF boarded the SS Wandana in Townsville headed for Portland Roads.

Portland is located on north-south US Route 165 at the junction with State Highway 160.

It also had the seventeenth most Dominicans in the US, at 1. 84 % ( tied with Portland, New York ,) while it had the twenty-third highest percentage of Peruvians, at 2. 17 % of all residents.

In addition to its main offices in Hollywood, SAG also maintains local branches in several major US cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D. C.

While touring in the US, Mitch Mitchell was found dead on November 12, 2008 in his room at the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

In 2010, Portland, TX had a Crime Index lower than the US average and half that of Texas despite violent occurrences that made national news.

The company has locations in the US at San Jose, California ; South Portland, Maine ; West Jordan, Utah ; Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, and outside the US in Singapore ; Bucheon, South Korea ; Penang, Malaysia ; Suzhou, China ; and Cebu, Philippines ; among others.

Van Sant is an alumnus of Darien High School in Connecticut, US, and The Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon, US.

* Notable US cities which have adopted UGBs include Portland, Oregon ; Twin Cities, Minnesota ; Virginia Beach, Virginia ; Lexington, Kentucky ; Miami-Dade county.

For nearly four weeks the tour travelled on an 18-city tour of the US, finishing in Portland, Oregon.

Cone's biography Adelina Patti: Queen of Hearts ; Amadeus Press, Portland, US, 1993.