Word: cementation
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...carpet treatment, was hailed by cheering thousands who beat gongs and drums in welcome, and had formal banquets and long talks with Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Out of it all came an interest-free $60 million loan with which to purchase Chinese cement, textiles and machinery...
Last week he returned from Bulgaria after closing a deal in which Krupp will equip and manage a $25 million synthetic fiber plant. Krupp also signed a contract recently to build a cement plant in Yugoslavia, has made a deal to sell diesel-powered fishing boats to Bulgaria, and is holding talks with the Polish, Hungarian and Rumanian governments about machine-tool and other plants...
...specific tasks, both mundane and exotic, from bookkeeping to monitoring underground nuclear explosions. Computers control the flow of electric current for much of the nation, route long-distance telephone calls, set newspaper type, even dictate just how sausage is made. They navigate ships and planes, mix cakes and cement, prepare weather forecasts, check income tax returns, direct city traffic and diagnose human-and machine-ailments. They render unto Caesar by sending out the monthly bills and reading the squiggly hieroglyphics on bank checks, and unto God by counting the ballots of the world's Catholic bishops at sessions...
...Kaiser Aluminum is busy putting up new plants in West Berlin, Turkey and Japan. Kaiser Steel has just closed the largest trade deal in Australia's history: with a local partner, it will sell $600 million worth of iron ore to Japan over the next 15 years. Kaiser Cement & Gypsum this month opened a mill in Florida, and later this year will start up another in New Jersey, thus invading the eastern U.S. market...
...shown much interest yet in such a settlement. In private talks with Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi,* Ayub sought to promote further trade and, more important, nail down an interest-free, $60 million loan, promised late last year to encourage Pakistani purchases of Chinese cement, textiles and machinery...