Word: cementation
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...demon knitter, began his career as a medical student but "whammed out be cause I wasn't much good." Then he manufactured rubber facial replacements for disfigured war victims. "To make sure they would stick," he says, "I sandpapered my tum and fixed an ear onto it with cement and wore it four months...
...never does. His material is gauged for longevity rather than flash. His patent for permanence is simply that he can do no wrong. His cheapskate, self-deceiving, inept, shrug-it-off, endearing and vainglorious public character has grown round him for decade after decade like layer after layer of cement, and he has long since become utterly indestructible. Many of his peer contemporaries-Eddie Cantor. Fred Allen, Ben Bernie-are either retired or dead; but Benny just keeps on standing there with that look, and warm, unraucous laughter ripples all over the room...
...Development Corporation of the Philippines, flew off to Washington to arrange $22 million in loans. Roman Catholic Ortigas is a successful businessman with a highly regarded talent for organization. Branching out from his own insurance and real estate business, he has gone into meat packing, sugar refining and cement, written a book called Planting Rice Is Never Fun. As head of the new corporation, 70% controlled by Philippine citizens, he will decide where to extend long-term loans to help Philippine mining, agriculture and industry...
Understandably, the Japanese are risking only small amounts in fledgling economies, but the lure is irresistible. Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, Japan's largest shipbuilder, is putting an initial $1,500,000 into a shipyard in Singapore, has joined in a $2,000,000 cement plant in Malaya. Yawata Iron & Steel...
...Taylor, Baldy Smith, and high-scorer Bill Lamarche added goals in the third and fourth periods to cement the Crimson victory while goalie Godfrey Wood held off all Big Red scoring threats...