Word: cementation
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...Rails & Packing Crates. Lee's men scrounged 2,000 lengths of rail from bombed-out spur lines and abandoned mine railways. From the steel rails the welders fashioned a supply of I beams. The Koreans went out into the hills, returned with 1,500 bags of cement hidden there by the Japanese almost six years before. For forms, they used old packing crates from Tandy's supply dump. For cribbing, the Koreans borrowed thousands of railroad ties from the Andong-Taegu railway line, returned them promptly when they were through with them...
...speculation among Hong Kong's Catholic refugees last week was the forthcoming trial of Bishop Ford. Fifty-eight-year-old Bishop Francis Ford of the Maryknoll Fathers has worked in Kwangtung since 1918. In 20 years, his flock rose from 9,000 to 20,000. Bishop Ford introduced cement masonry to the Chinese under his care; he built schools, hostels and churches, which he preferred to have designed according to Chinese rather than western standards of architecture. During World War II, he stayed on the job helping Chinese guerrillas and organizing escape routes for downed allied airmen...
...target of this invading army is just beyond Ellenton: a 200,000-acre site spotted with hundreds of hustling trucks, steam shovels and cement mixers. There the steel skeleton of a headquarters building is already rising-the focus for sightseers who come from miles around to see what the Du Ponts are doing. What E. I. du Pont de Nemours is doing is worth considerable attention. It is building the Government's $600 million plant to make the components for the hydrogen bomb. "You can't tell no lies about this thing," said an awestruck sharecropper. "This thing...
...wrote his own epitaph for the Third Republic. "The old teams," he wrote, "moving slower & slower, went in & out 'making the little tour,' always with a little more skepticism, always with a little more discredit." Of ministerial crises he noted: "At the first hot episode the cement would melt and everything would have to be done over again . . . Sometimes the government was overthrown on the very day it presented itself to the Chamber." Of the presidency that he would later fill, he wrote: "The President faithfully represented and expressed the national will only on the day following...
...hours, Jan's mother & father took turns holding the tooth in place, while the blood clot, which was acting as a natural cement, grew steadily harder. Last week Jan Dockin's tooth seemed to be firmly rooted, healthy new tissue had grown around its base, and Dr. Slattery was confident that it would serve Jan indefinitely, short of such complications as another tumble on the sidewalk...