Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surface, the record has been amazing. Setting aside half its budget for defense. Turkey has put 22 divisions into NATO, doubled its output of steel, cement, textiles. It has built 7,000 miles of road and started a dozen multipurpose dam projects. Its most spectacular gain has been in agriculture, where, with the help of subsidies and 40,000 imported tractors, it has doubled the tilled land and turned the country into an exporter of wheat and cotton...
...bulldozing roads, planting new crops, nobody found time or talent to coordinate and manage all the projects. Factories were located in one part of the country, the electric power to operate them in another. Sugar mills seemed to get built near voters, not beet fields. As soon as new cement plants got into production, their output poured off into the walls of speculative apartment houses in Istanbul instead of more urgently needed factory floors. When Turkey's huge new wheat crops poured to market, no facilities were there for cleaning the grain, and the wheat had to be downgraded...
Needless to say, then, as a source of humor No Time for Sergeants is practically a goldmine. Military life is always a ripe target. But the show's dialogue needs tightening. It continually seems poured in around the catchy scenes and clever jokes as a filler, like cement. Funny situation are set up too obviously. The dialogue holds together only through the skill of the actors, who manage to prevent the humor from degenerating into slapstick...
...insurance companies to newspaper chains. Son of rich parents who had lost their money, he says he made his first killing before he was 19 by cornering the Bombay gold bullion market. By 1937 he had made and lost three fortunes in speculations and won a hold on a cement factory, the foundation of an industrial empire that burgeoned mightily during the war. "During the war years, I earned money through sinful ways," he confessed later...
University officials have grasped some initiative by requiring all students to register their autos with the Yard police, and more recently by enforcing this rule. Lots handling over a total of 1,000 cars have been set up and little signs have blossomed in cement directing drivers please not to park here, there, and everywhere on University property, especially without permits. But the lots are full, the signs are ignored, and the streets crowded with thousands of illegally parked cars...