Word: cementation
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...glue itself but the volatile solvents (acetone, butyl acetate, toluene) used to make the glue dry faster that are poisonous as well as intoxicating. Glue manufacturers are trying to find a remedy for the situation. Says Charles D. Miller, president of Tester Corp., Rockford, Ill., makers of model-airplane cement: "We are going to change the formula by reducing the amount of acetone so that the narcotic effect will be slowed down, but I am afraid the kids will just switch to another product...
Broil in Private. In all the cement pouring din, what of the well-to-do few who once had huge hunks of the Caribbean to themselves? They are still there, but in a new kind of resort away from the crowds where they can crawl off to their own undisturbed beach and broil in private peace. They frequently join in cooperatives, started either by a millionaire real estate developer or by a group of friends who pool their money for property on which to build a cottage colony. And since the co-ops are strictly screened, the members...
Originally most of the waste was dumped at sea. The materials were packed into 55-gal. drums marked with AEC's radioactivity insigne, a white cloud with four lightning bolts shooting out of it. The drums were lined with 2 to 10 in. of cement, sealed with more cement, and carried by ship to offshore dumping grounds set up by AEC. Two such grounds are off the Atlantic coast, two more are off the coast of California. All four are in water 6,000 ft. deep. Since 1946. about 21,000 drums have been tipped into the Pacific...
...Benkhedda flew to Morocco, where he was hailed by a crowd of 50,000 and received the 21-gun salute awarded to heads of state. With him, settling down for an indefinite stay in Morocco, was the top leadership of the F.L.N. Evident purpose of the F.L.N. migration: to cement relations with a major North African power...
...step in to straighten out management problems, at times has found itself running an insurance company, a machinery maker, a food processor, a coal-mining firm, and a molasses company. To settle the estate of one wealthy New York lawyer, the bank merged three small cement companies he controlled, formed General Portland Cement Co., which in 13 years has jumped from $15 million in sales to $59 million...