Word: cementation
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...obstructions in the Suez Canal, the Egyptians were sure that the hardest to remove would be the cement-laden Akka, which they sank midway in the canal, and the tangled wreckage of the Firdan bridge, which they dynamited and then accused the Anglo-French of having destroyed from the air. In 2½ days last week two powerful German lifting craft and a pair of tugs cleared a passage past the dynamited bridge with so little apparent difficulty that a disquieted Egyptian army officer watching from the bank remarked: "By Allah, we did not expect them to work that fast...
Magloire's most obvious money-makers were companies that manufactured soap, cement and sisal bags. He held a monopoly on all three products, and kept the profit margin high. Meanwhile his two brothers were uncommonly successful in a variety of enterprises, including the country's largest tobacco exporting firm. Another money-making deal involved the new Delmas Road leading out of Port-au-Prince; real-estate records show that before the road was built Magloire and his cronies bought up big blocks of the land along each side. And as the stories began to come out, dozens...
Then the Committee got to the red ink. Despite increases over 1955, production of steel, coal, cement and timber in 1956 did not reach the goals set by the Sixth Five Year Plan adopted a year ago. In addition, scowled the Committee, "the plans for housing have been only partly fulfilled," which was a soft way of saying that Russia's desperate housing situation is in terrible shape...
...Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, former Panama Canal engineer, some 23 ships of six nations stood in to attack the blockage in three task forces-one clearing smaller wrecks around Port Said, two others working from opposite ends of the canal to join at Ismailia in clearing the cement-laden hulk of the Egyptian LST Akka, by far the toughest single salvage job. The U.N. fleet, said General Wheeler, will be built up to 30 vessels and will operate under a consortium of experienced Dutch and Danish firms. If all goes according to plan, said Wheeler, the canal should...
...omnipresent state handles most of the nation's banking and insurance, monopolizes coal imports, operates the railroads, the power plants, the telephone system, a huge slaughterhouse, liquor distilleries, oil refineries, fisheries, cement plants, a repertory theater, an ambulance service and a string of low-cost restaurants. This statist structure is costly in both obvious and insidious ways. Uruguay suffers from Latin America's severest case of bureaucratic bloat, with 150,000 civil servants out of a labor force of 1,000,000. Government deficits pile up year after year. And under the state's blanket benevolence, incentive...