From the February 13, 1932, issue

TESTS SHOW STEEL COLUMNS STRENGTHENED BY BRICK WALL

Steel-frame buildings, from modest structures of just a few floors to the tallest skyscrapers, may be built more economically with the use of less steel as the result of facts discovered by research at the U.S. Bureau of Standards.

This study, which was carried out in the Engineering and Mechanics section of the Bureau under the direction of Dr.