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Turkey's two mightiest political figures last week left their own shores to line up friends abroad. President Celal Bayar turned up in Karachi to cement a military alliance with Pakistan. Premier Adnan Menderes descended by air on Baghdad to sign a Turkish-Iraqi treaty of mutual defense against Communism...
While Tony Trabert was edging up on professional tennis, a onetime sure shot backed away, perhaps for good. Last season, when a pro contract was hers for the asking, Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly had gone horseback riding, tangled with a cement mixer and dropped out of amateur competition with a broken leg. Now, said Little Mo, her leg had mended but her spirit had not. A comeback was not worth the effort. Standing hand-in-hand with her fiancé, San Diego State College Sophomore Norman A. Brinker, she announced: "I just don't enjoy tennis any more...
...investors regarded the cement industry as profitable-until recently. But in last week's bull market, cement stocks were holding their own with aircraft and oil. Riding the construction boom, they have doubled in price in the last year, while extra dividends and stock splits have become common. In the last month alone, North American Cement Corp. split its stock 4 for 3 and General Portland Cement split...
There was plenty of reason to be enthusiastic about the industry. The 157 active U.S. plants are operating at 90% of capacity and producing 21 million bbls. of Portland* cement monthly. Last year they shipped 280 million bbls., 20 million more than in 1953 and 80 million more than in 1949. And with a record-breaking $39.5 billion worth of construction scheduled in 1955, industry leaders are embarking on big expansion programs. Lehigh Portland Cement Co. of Allentown, Pa. is spending $15 million to boost its annual capacity by 3.000,000 bbls.; Universal Atlas Cement Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary...
...copper and cement compound to keep the floors of industrial kitchens and barns sanitary...