Word: cementation
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...Doubled production of such commodities as fabrics, trebled cement output...
...when combined with mechanics, sometimes finds surprising outlets. Some of the japes at Caltech make ordinary college-boy pranks look like arrangements of kindergarten blocks. On one occasion a senior opened his door to find a completely assembled and working Ford in his room. Another senior found an assembled cement mixer, and still another bumped into a meteorological balloon that stretched from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall-completely filled with water. Even dance decorations may inspire the young scientific mind. Once Dr. George Mayhew, general panjandrum of student affairs, picked up the phone and heard a voice...
...CEMENT SHORTAGE threatens to slow down the building boom in three key U.S. areas. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association reports that the 95 producing U.S. companies cannot meet expanding demand because of severe shortages in New England, some Midwestern states and Texas, where a grey market has started in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth...
...scores of other nooks and crannies of Government, less dramatic ways have been found to eliminate competition with private business. The Defense Department has shut down 24 scrap-metal operations, seven bakeries, nine laundries, a chain factory, a caustic-soda plant, four cement-mixing plants, a tire-retreading plant, two garden nurseries and four ice plants. The Navy, which has been manufacturing uniforms for years, has closed its clothing factory. It is bringing in more private yards to overhaul its ships, has boosted such contracts from $34 million in 1953 to $82 million in fiscal...
...many pieces, not to overthrow a monolithic government in the name of individual liberty. Dr. Sun Yat-sen used to argue that, unlike Europe, China had not too little but too much liberty without organization, "and we have become a heap of sand." What was needed was the cement. Chiang's Kuomintang tried to provide it. Slowly, while tirelessly expounding Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, Chiang forged his own philosophy of rule. Deeply imbued with Confucian thought, it was a theory based on precept, on the loyalty of subject to ruler...