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...Solid Cement. The building-materials industry was also a mixed bag. Despite peak sales, Johns-Manville reported a drop in third-quarter income to $6,967,861 v. $7,178,801 a year ago. But the cementmakers were up: Consolidated Cement netted $584,400 v. $465,200 a year ago; General Portland Cement earned $2,441,500 compared with $2,086,000; Penn Dixie Cement rose 23% over last year's third quarter...
...delicacy of the situation, it is fortunate that Mr. Dulles hit upon the formulation above; it is indeed uncanny, especially considering the context from which it emerged. Over and over in the same address, he reiterates the need for strength in the West ("we cannot rely on the cement of fear alone") and America's "historic role" as a virtuous nation. Also, as usual, he insists on "waging peace...
This year Munoz Marin is challenged by a man renowned enough to cut down the 65% majority Munoz Marin earned in 1952. Luis Ferre, 51, is a member of Puerto Rico's most important and progressive industrialist family. Master of a fortune earned in cement, glass, shipping, tile-making and trucking, he believes that "industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it." Ferre industries were famed for paying a $1-an-hour minimum wage long before...
...peace. Meanwhile, by "buying from heirs" Somoza acquired coffee fincas and cattle ranches, parlayed them into a fortune estimated at $60 million-some $20 million more than Nicaragua's annual budget. He reputedly owned one-tenth of the country's farmland, plus interests in lumber, liquor, soap, cement, power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather roads were built...
MINIMUM WAGE BOOST to $1 per hour has been extended to 36 more businesses working on Government contracts. Among them: luggage, fireworks, tobacco, evaporated milk, soap, fertilizer, cement, tags, surgical instruments. Total affected thus...