Word: cementation
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...Englishmen took in the gruesome details of the latest crime avidly, but with a practiced palate-it was, both in its profusion of corpses and in certain other characteristics, so very like London. Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer of 1942 (with...
...their automobile manufacturing company which Edgar runs. Kaiser-Frazer lost some $52 million during its seven years of existence, and is $48.4 million in hock to the RFC. Old Henry put most of the family's millions into the highly profitable Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical and Permanente Cement companies, controlled by his personal holding company, the Henry J. Kaiser...
Stresses & Strains. The new rulers in the Kremlin inherited with Stalin's empire all the strains and stresses which assail its granite exterior; they did not inherit the cement of Stalin's myth and mystique. Now, on both sides of the great Red wall, the deadly, cold-eyed watch has begun-the Communists alert to prevent any fissures in their monolith; the West alert to find even hairline cracks through which to enter wedges...
...They also engage the minds of many who think that Mao will become a Tito if only the West is gentle with him. "Imagine," editorialized London's New Statesman and Nation last week, "that the Chinese Communists were given their rightful seat on the Security Council . . . Then the cement that holds the Stalinite empire so rigidly together might begin to flake away." The New Statesman inhabits a pink cloud all its own, but on this particular issue there were some surprising echoes to the left & right in Britain...
Zeprex. The U.S. Plywood Corp. has bought the National Brick Corp. to convert it to manufacture Zeprex, a porous building material that looks like concrete, and is almost as strong, but can be chopped, sawed, and nailed like wood. Composed of cement, water and chemicals, Zeprex is only one-fifth as heavy as concrete but is said to insulate ten times as well, can be used for making walls, ceilings and floors. Until U.S. production begins early next year, Zeprex will be imported from Sweden, where it was invented...