Word: cementation
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Died. Delbert Eugene Webb, 75, Phoenix-based real-estate baron; of lung cancer; in Rochester, Minn. Webb was a promising semipro baseball pitcher before illness made him give up the game at 27. In 1929 he started his own construction company with one cement mixer and a few dozen wheelbarrows and tools, ultimately parlayed it into the Del E. Webb Corp., a $100 million empire of hotels, offices, planned retirement communities and other developments. With the late Dan Topping, Webb owned the New York Yankees during their postwar years of glory...
...time at all bouncing back. "She's lost none of her zip," said Father Maguire, adding proudly, "She does a tremendous thing with lamb." Baptized a Lutheran, Betty recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and she has wryly christened her hit breakfast recipe, oatmeal topped with Cool Whip, "Catholic cement...
...useless, naturally. To people convicted that English liberties should not be abridged, even the best explanation of why they were was simply irrelevant--and when it was coupled with measures to strengthen and cement the government doing the abridging, treasonable as well. In the same way, the complexity of Hutchinson's position on the Stamp Act--that thought it was an ill-conceived tax which people should petition Parliament to repeal, rejecting Parliament's authority to pass it struck at the foundations of the English government that protected all American freedoms--meant little to his opponents. They were engaged...
Says a young accountant for a large cement company: "The big pay raise doesn't put me any closer to my dream of owning my own home...
Dusty conditions often ensue in the packing of powdery asbestos admixtures, such as cement. Good housekeeping procedures become essential: floors must be periodically vacuumed, and the dust collectors of ventilation systems emptied on a regular basis. Working clothes must be changed immediately before returning home to eliminate uncontrolled exposure. The ventilation systems required to cleanse and recirculate the plant atmospheres are often so elaborate that ceilings must be kept clean; two or three inches of asbestos dust may collect on them in a very short time. An operation so simple as shoveling old brake shoes into a disposal vehicle...