Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, the first of five projects to help modernize Persia under a seven-year plan got under way. The first project, costing $6,000,000, was started by Manhattan's Kennedy-Van Saun Manufacturing & Engineering Corp. with the shipment of equipment for a 200-ton-a-day cement plant at Shiraz. Around the plant will be built a model city, complete with hospitals, electric lights...
...Army match on Saturday was a different story. Playing on a low-ceiling indoor converted cement hockey rink, the Crimson came from behind to take a close 5-4 decision. With the score tied at four-all, the first doubles team of Broward Craig and Hughes dropped the first set before rallying to take the final two to decide the match...
...Kaiser Steel Corp., which owns the big $123 million Fontana steel plant, his biggest moneymaker. The next best moneymaker, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., is controlled (49.7%) by the Henry J. Kaiser Co. and another investment company, Kaiser Industries, Inc. Between them they also control four other profitable companies: Permanente Cement Co., with a 30.4% stock interest; Kaiser Metal Products Inc. (55%), Kaiser Community Homes (50%), and Consolidated Builders Inc. (22.5%). On the other hand, the two companies own only 9.5% interest in the money-losing, automaking Kaiser-Frazer Corp...
...quad. Just to make sure, he reached into his inside pocket to see if the invitation was still there. It was: "You are cordially invited to attend an informal dance. See you there. O.K.! Joan S." This term was going to be different, starting that night. He would cement relations with Joan, meet a bevy of new girls, and never let another weekend go by. He was going to bow to the system from now on, even if it meant calling up a week and a half in advance...
...report holds out little hope that any U.S. city would fare much better. The large windows of U.S. office buildings might relieve the stress on the skeleton by blowing in immediately-and slicing anyone near them to ribbons. The brick or cement-block walls would turn into murderous missiles...