Word: cementation
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There is a lot of love among the Democrats-there has to be to cement such a collection of reformers, big-city bosses, labor leaders and Southern conservatives. If the party's national convention goes into a long deadlock over Kefauver, Harriman and Russell, the delegates may turn to Barkley, who is loved by all factions. Or they may turn to House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, who is respected by all factions...
Today, says Jacquetta Hawkes, Britons are not so lucky. "The fatal discovery of Portland cement [no kin to Portland stone] was made about a century ago. I am aware that steel and concrete building can be good, that it puts all kinds of possibilities before us-such as houses wider at the top than at the bottom . . . [But] it represents that terrifying new phenomenon, man mechanized and living cut off from his land, from the rock out of which he has come...
...most convincing account shows that because of poor weather and other complications, Washington could not have accepted command under this elm. Yet for years afterward, the tree was nursed and trimmed to a ripe old age of 202. Then in 1923, the poor, wretched elm, filled with cement and braced with iron, crashed to the ground. Unwilling to give up its symbolic ghost, the city government sent bunks of the main trunk to the governors of the forty-eight states and gave out at least 1000 pieces in all, each with a metal tag. The only evidence of the tree...
Evidently the British think so too. They recently sent an emissary to 70-year-old Sheik Shakabut at his cement fort, decorated him as Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...Washington Goethals was put in charge of the canal project in 1907, he made Wood a captain and boss of all recruiting, housing, and distribution of labor. Later Goethals gave him the job of requisition & purchase of supplies. He had to make good. "The day we run out of cement," growled General Goethals, "you're fired." Wood drove his men as hard as himself, and got a reputation for never speaking to a man except to fire him. He worked such long hours that "everything I've done since has seemed easy." He also learned...