Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peculiar talents sprouted like mushrooms. He was shrewd and quick-minded, capable of great courage and matchless brutality, a man capable of believing himself when he snarled, as he often did to a wavering follower: "Death is easy." During World War I he helped sabotage some German cement barges. By war's end he was a stoker on the battleship Helgoland and was hard at work stoking up the fires of the German naval mutiny. It was Stoker Wollweber who gave the mutiny signal to the Helgoland's crew. When truckloads of shouting armed mutineers stormed into Bremen...
...Permanente Cement Co. is spending $4,000,000 to increase production by 25%, up to 7,000,000 barrels a year...
...Rails & Packing Crates. Lee's men scrounged 2,000 lengths of rail from bombed-out spur lines and abandoned mine railways. From the steel rails the welders fashioned a supply of I beams. The Koreans went out into the hills, returned with 1,500 bags of cement hidden there by the Japanese almost six years before. For forms, they used old packing crates from Tandy's supply dump. For cribbing, the Koreans borrowed thousands of railroad ties from the Andong-Taegu railway line, returned them promptly when they were through with them...
...speculation among Hong Kong's Catholic refugees last week was the forthcoming trial of Bishop Ford. Fifty-eight-year-old Bishop Francis Ford of the Maryknoll Fathers has worked in Kwangtung since 1918. In 20 years, his flock rose from 9,000 to 20,000. Bishop Ford introduced cement masonry to the Chinese under his care; he built schools, hostels and churches, which he preferred to have designed according to Chinese rather than western standards of architecture. During World War II, he stayed on the job helping Chinese guerrillas and organizing escape routes for downed allied airmen...
...target of this invading army is just beyond Ellenton: a 200,000-acre site spotted with hundreds of hustling trucks, steam shovels and cement mixers. There the steel skeleton of a headquarters building is already rising-the focus for sightseers who come from miles around to see what the Du Ponts are doing. What E. I. du Pont de Nemours is doing is worth considerable attention. It is building the Government's $600 million plant to make the components for the hydrogen bomb. "You can't tell no lies about this thing," said an awestruck sharecropper. "This thing...