Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around many a key city in the eastern U.S. last week, cement-mixers, supplying the foundation of the nation's biggest construction boom, lay silent on their jobs. The sudden silence came after strikes were called by 17,000 United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers (total membership: 41,000) in 70 of the country's 160 cement plants. With kilns cooling and stockpiles quickly dwindling, contractors laid off about 20,000 construction men in New York, paralyzing work on $400 million in highways, schools, hospitals, airport facilities, piers. In Pennsylvania, expressway construction stopped on a six-mile stretch...
...Republic. His basic maneuver is to squeeze other investors, including those from the U.S., out of profitable businesses. He sends his representatives to make what is often a scrupulously fair offer; the victims accept rather than face the tax and regulatory troubles that might follow refusal. Trujillo's cement, beer and electric-power monopolies were all acquired in this fashion, and he has nearly completed control of the island's biggest business-sugar. Most recent big U.S. firm to get out: the West Indies Sugar Co., for $36 million...
...CEMENT SHORTAGE is stalling construction jobs in Northeast, South and Midwest. Two-week-old strike by 12,000 members of United Cement, Lime & Gypsum Workers union has cut U.S. cement output by one-third...
...materials abroad for resale cheap to Peronista manufacturers. Industry-subsidized, tariff-protected and inefficient, but nonetheless industry-grew 63% between 1943 and 1956. Argentina began or expanded the production of chemicals, canned goods, paint, paper, machine tools, motorcycles, tires, tobacco, plastics, plywood, surgical instruments, steel furniture, motors, matches, cement, batteries, refrigerators, TV sets. At length industrial production topped farm production...
...month program is "make-work." It is generally agreed that the Air National Guard has done an outstanding job by requiring requisite active-duty training which varies for the various career fields, and leaving basic military indoctrination to the home unit and weekly drills. But in any case, the cement of the military mind has hardened and the six-month requirement stands...