Word: cementation
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...moved for the plant's foundation; the final total was closer to 40 million. When construction stretched into the severe winter of 1968-69, work crews had to mount jet aircraft engines on trucks and focus the exhaust on the ground to thaw it, and on newly poured cement to keep it from cracking. In the spring, the construction site became a sea of mud. Hundreds of yards of dikes and runoff canals had to be built. Fiat had to rely on Soviet subcontractors to supply many of the parts it needed in the early stages of production. Tires...
...sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against the idea (which was later successfully renewed), and the company folded...
...after day festering alone in bed, drawing into himself, utterly isolated in a concrete cellar room. He reads a lot of books: they depress him, increase his loneliness. He stops reading, and as he struggles to hang on to his sanity he becomes excruciatingly familiar with every individual cement block in the cell. Fighting to keep from fading entirely to within his own head, his lunge at reality turns to memorizing each idiosyncrasy on the surface of the four walls. He begins, then, to attach string to certain points on the concrete, connecting juttings of plaster, establishing relationships, labeling them...
...world's best market for second-rate works by first-rate artists. Japanese buy names, not quality." Even the patriarchal trading houses of Japan are in on the act -sometimes with depressing results, as when the huge Marubeni Corp. added art to its "general trading" department (along with cement, cameras and sundry goods) and got stuck with a dubious Botticelli at $500,000. "I still don't know anything about this business," admits the Marubeni staffer who was shifted from exporting Japanese toys to importing European...
...Vesco first set out to cement his control by buying out Cornfeld, who had been deposed as chairman but still held a large block of IOS stock. In early 1971, Vesco secretly bought the block for $5.5 million-$3,500,000 more than the market price-through a dummy Panamanian corporation called Linkink. Later, Vesco had International Controls buy Linkink. The SEC complaint states that Vesco chose this circuitous route because he wanted to hide his operations as thoroughly as possible. If the charge is true, Vesco bought Cornfeld's stock at an inflated price by using stock...