Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this adds up to a Soviet offensive whose purpose is to cement a world bloc of nations on the base of a common hostility to the capitalist U.S. Its leaders, marking out the whole grey world of neutral nations inside their "zone of peace," claim 1.5 billion people-almost two-thirds of humanity-on their side, and boldly redefine the opponents of Communism as an isolated, retreating minority. To the Asian nations they offer the comradeship of backwardness, the fraternity of poverty, the communality of agricultural nations seeking to industrialize themselves, and sympathetic stirring of old resentments against their colonial...
Most of the men in the small cement fortress near the Moroccan border were Moslem riflemen in French uniform, professionals and veterans who had fought for France in Europe and Indo-China. Only the officer in command and a scattering of other ranks were French. Among the 80 Moslems was Corporal Cheraf Abd el Krim, who in Indo-China had been captured by the Communist Viet Minh and then released...
...Canada's gross national product is now running 11% above the record set in 1953. Even at its present high rate, the output does not meet the demand. There are shortages of steel and cement for domestic use, and of newsprint, chemicals and metals for eager foreign customers...
...rigs. Along the way, Lung Surgeon Alton Ochsner has become a leader in the medicosurgical fight against cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer. He makes as many speeches (professional) as a man who says he is not running for the presidency, and has also found time to cement relations between U.S. surgeons and their colleagues throughout Latin America...
HENRY KAISER will borrow $95 million from private banks to retire all outstanding debts of Willys and Kaiser Motors Corp. (including $13.3 million owed the Government). To do so, Kaiser will bring his automaking, construction, steel, cement, aluminum and home-building companies under one giant company to be known as Kaiser Industries Corp...