Word: cementation
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...peacetime year since the first Five Year Plan was introduced in 1928. Agricultural production actually fell 3% last year, and 1969 grain production dropped 10%. Anticipating severe shortages, the Soviets were forced to buy $150 million in wheat from Canada. Such vital industries as ferrous metals, petrochemicals, paper, cement and autos fell far short of their goals...
...Nixon had a cement cake made, then covered it with decorative icing and presented it as a top quality cake. Critics of the cement interior would be told by Nixon (or Mitchell) that they are phony idealists who want to have their cake and eat it too. The whole point behind this crude analogy is that the cake is no good as a cake unless it can be eaten. By advertising his program as "an improving quality of life" for the American people, and then limiting his actions to minimal ecology pledges, Nixon is merely showing off the icing...
There is not much on sale at Truc, but the browsing is good. However, Truc loses the prize for the most fun browsing to its new neighbors to the north, Design Research. The five-story all-glass-and-cement store is one big maze of beautiful, expensive things. DR had a sale when they moved from across the street, so there is none...
...area of consumer goods has been disappointing; shortages persist not only in autos, refrigerators and small appliances, but also in even such items as table crockery and knives and forks. Soviet planners have also been unable to correct chronic shortfalls in such basic industrial items as steel, coal, fertilizers, cement, paper and electric power...
...building something where somebody else had been destroying. Besides, there's still one nice stretch of the creek left, and maybe after all the uproar they'll be afraid to destroy it with any future projects. At least they're going to leave the creek and not cement...