Word: cementation
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...other Rangoon-bound vessels got orders to alter course. Along Strand Road, Rangoon's wharfside thoroughfare, government officials, merchants and shipping agents found themselves confronted everywhere by the cause of the distress. In warehouses, on docks, even in the port health station, thousands of bags of cement were piled high, crowding out all else and paralyzing the port. And more cement...
...first the corporation built and ran plants, e.g., a wartime rum-bottle factory, a cement plant. But some strikes that followed showed the vulnerability of government in the double role of industrial labor's friend and employer. The lesson grew clear that the way to industrialize was to attract U.S. capital. In 1948 Operation Bootstrap, based on that principle, got under...
...tennisplayer dislikes these wind-blasted plains he can find 14 more cement lawns at the Business School, one (closed) at Leverett House, and five remote clay courts at Radcliffe. Or he can join a country club. But if he decides to stay here to play, he may have to wait as long as an hour for one of Harvard's prize hard courts, especially on a sunny weekend...
...next three years Russia will not only build a 1,000,000-ton steel mill at Bhilai, Central India, but also supply India with a million tons of steel, almost a third of the country's imports under its second five-year plan. Together with shipments of cement, coal-mining and other machinery, this will build a $300 million to $500 million Russian credit in New Delhi...
...Among the flints and pebbles on the treeless brown hills around Amman grew scattered stands of wheat. Flanked by rich oil lands, Jordan had no oil of its own, got revenue only from tolls on the two pipelines that cross it from Iraq and Saudi Arabia. "A cement factory and a cigarette plant constitute Jordan's heavy industry," an economist observed wryly. Abdullah accordingly took Britain's advice with its money, accepted British commanders for the Arab Legion, let Britain plant its embassy inside his palace grounds. His Bedouin subjects, flocking to join the colorfully uniformed Legion, made...