Word: cementation
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Since World War II the Ferrés-José, Luis and Herman-have built a complex of seven companies into Puerto Rico's biggest private business. Today the Ferrés make 90% of the island's cement, nearly all its bottles and most of its tile and paperboard. They also fabricate steel, make sugar-milling equipment, and are partners with Pan Am in the jazzy new El Ponce Intercontinental hotel. In 1962 the Ferré enterprises grossed $80 million and netted, after taxes, some...
...Belgian Cement Worker Albert Verbrugghe was driving his wife and another woman down a quiet street in the copper town of Jadotville one day last week, when he suddenly heard the clatter of gunfire. Pulling the triggers for no apparent reason were nervous Indian troops of the advancing United Nations force. Verbrugghe slammed his little Volkswagen to a halt. His wife was already dead, the other woman dying. With an anguished scream. Verbrugghe stumbled out, blood streaming from a wound under his eye. "My wife is killed," he cried...
...purchases, but few patriots were willing to turn in their hoards, even on the attractive official terms for payment. Civil defense measures were a joke, slit trenches being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless villagers on the northern frontier. Perhaps to stiffen his resolve, a newspaper editor sent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru a submachine...
...Mattei's policies, which involved buying huge shipments of oil from the Russians, offering cut-rate competition for private Western oil majors for drilling and refining rights in Africa and Asia, and aggressively tightening E.N.I.'s grasp on the Italian economy through interests ranging from fertilizers to cement. But Boldrini is neither young nor dynamic and much prefers his off time job as statistics professor at Rome University. He is being referred to as an "interim Pope...
...Morocco, Somalia and the Sudan. Italy's business leaders fumed as Mattei, building an empire worth $2 billion, poached on more and more preserves of free enterprise. E.N.I. now owns motels, cafes, a newspaper (Milan's Il Giorno), an atom power plant and factories producing synthetic rubber, cement, plastics, fertilizers...