Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruling Socialists. "Interference of the most brazen kind," a top Burmese neutralist called it. The Burmese have also had their business disenchantments with their cynical Communist trading partners. Despite fine promises of the latest machinery and steel, all the Russians ever sent them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks by monsoon rains (TIME, May 21). Most insulting of all, the Russians and Chinese began selling off their Burmese rice in Burma's own best markets. Said...
...recent articles evoked a certain perplexity among the natives of Loma. As Editor Miller tells it: "TIME has brought news of the world to our remote African door. TIME articles have been given recognition in our publication. For example, your very newsworthy story about the trade of rice for cement in Burma (TIME, May 21) met with stupendous lack of sympathy in this rice-conscious, rice-loving part of the world. No Loma man would even consider trading rice for cement...
Darkness & Manure. Early in his reign, Yadavindra had pensioned off the young princes' mothers. Except for one or two of the sons who had gone off to take honest jobs (one as a cement salesman), the princes preferred to stay on, puttering uselessly around their palace, complaining about the measly allowance ($85 a month) given them by the state, and explaining that they had lived in idleness too long to be expected to work. Two months ago, when the Indian tax bureau offered to buy the princes' palace as a new headquarters for itself, Yadavindra jumped...
...Cement: 113,100,000 bbls. v. 58,700,000 bbls. for road work...
...product development to fit other companies' requirements. Even corporations with their own big laboratories often hand over research projects to scientific contractors such as Boston's famed Arthur D. Little Inc. (1955 gross: $11 million), whose 800-man research staff has developed products ranging from rubber cement to a better instant coffee. Research is also farmed out to nonprofit institutions and universities, which, before World War II, had a virtual monopoly on basic research...