Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Rangoon-bound vessels got orders to alter course. Along Strand Road, Rangoon's wharfside thoroughfare, government officials, merchants and shipping agents found themselves confronted everywhere by the cause of the distress. In warehouses, on docks, even in the port health station, thousands of bags of cement were piled high, crowding out all else and paralyzing the port. And more cement...
...surplus of its own). Burma sent trade delegates to Iron Curtain countries to barter. They were eager amateurs who knew little about the fine points of trade, could not even speak Russian, and had to settle for whatever exchange goods they could get. Iron Curtain countries had plenty of cement to offer; cement, the delegates figured, would surely come in handy for Burma's projected construction program. So, without consulting Rangoon, they ordered a whopping 124,000 tons of cement from Russia, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. In their enthusiasm they somehow forgot that 1) no major construction is going...
...ordinary shipping trade has all but halted, and demurrage charges are mounting at the rate of $4,200 a day. Soon harbor authorities will face an even worse problem. With the beginning of the monsoon season, the steady downpour of rain will wet much of the uncovered cement and convert it into solid mass...
...first the corporation built and ran plants, e.g., a wartime rum-bottle factory, a cement plant. But some strikes that followed showed the vulnerability of government in the double role of industrial labor's friend and employer. The lesson grew clear that the way to industrialize was to attract U.S. capital. In 1948 Operation Bootstrap, based on that principle, got under...
...tennisplayer dislikes these wind-blasted plains he can find 14 more cement lawns at the Business School, one (closed) at Leverett House, and five remote clay courts at Radcliffe. Or he can join a country club. But if he decides to stay here to play, he may have to wait as long as an hour for one of Harvard's prize hard courts, especially on a sunny weekend...