Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock underwriter, was doing business in New York, Colombia and Venezuela. All told, Deltec has sold stock to some 50,000 Brazilians, 80% of whom, Dauphinot estimates, had never owned stock before. The buyers put their money into such Brazilian subsidiaries as Squibb, Dunlop, Willys, General Tire, Lone Star Cement, I.T.&T. and Brazilian department-store, telephone, textile, cement and steel companies. Dauphinot's salesmen also sell investment trust shares for as little as 100 cruzeiros...
...mainland-owned companies, formed collective-like "proportional profit" cane plantations. A TVA-style Water Resources Authority took over power production from several private power companies, and began wide-scale irrigation as well. Using $10.7 million in treasury funds, Fomento built or took over factories to make cement, glass and cardboard (for rum bottles and cases), shoes, tile...
...mock-up of the catacombs, an exhibit of "the vital problems that frighten mankind" (which includes two gigantic U.S. dollar bills), and souvenirs (scarves with the papal coat of arms, a special issue of Vatican stamps, money of the Vatican State). Total cost, not counting the donated cement, glass, carpets, wood, altar, organ and two carillon systems: about...
...station and put up a big neon sign combining the papal coat of arms, the arms of Lourdes, and those of the ancient local ruling house of Bigorre. As the town continues its face-lifting, the sound of church bells is drowned everywhere by the clang and bang of cement mixers and pneumatic drills...
...they accused him of using development funds as a bottomless pork barrel with which to woo the peasant vote-a charge at least partly borne out last year when Menderes swept along Turkey's Black Sea coast in a pre-election tour passing out promises of sugar mills, cement factories and port improvements with all the abandon of a new father distributing cigars...