Word: cementation
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Last week Tonkin's uneasy quiet was broken by the urgent growl of American bulldozers and cement-mixers. De Lattre, in furious haste, was replacing the Beau Geste forts on his northern front with modern concrete bunkers. His main concern: protection of the vital 60-mile road and rail link between Hanoi and the supply port of Haiphong...
...locks. Additionally, five dams would harness the International Rapids to spin 36 turbines at Barnhart Island. The project would cost Canada $412 million, the U.S. $523 million. It would take six years, provide 15,000 jobs, consume 150,000 tons of steel and 7,300,000 barrels of cement...
...save millions of pounds of pipe and millions of man-hours now wasted piecing together special assemblies. ¶ Ceiling heights and sill heights could be further standardized so that lumber and wallboard producers could supply materials precut to fit. ¶ Millions of pounds of copper wiring, steel pipe and cement are wasted by excessive street widths imposed on most low-cost developments...
Conditions of Marriage. Economist Remington, testified quiet, sullen-mouthed Ann Moos Remington-looking directly at her ex-husband as he sat motionless and poker-faced at the counsel table-had been a Communist. So, she admitted, had she. Communism, in fact, had been the cement in their romance, which began in 1937 when he was a student at Dartmouth and she an undergraduate at Bennington. She told the jury that once when they were sitting in a parked automobile on the Dartmouth campus, he confided that he "was a member of the Communist Party and adjured me to secrecy...
...completed. At Zenica, slated to be the Pittsburgh of Yugoslavia, you see it spelled out. Peasants undertaking to become skilled workers wander back to the land. Youth brigades are digging foundations for a rolling mill-a job best done by trained laborers with bulldozers and steamshovels. But bulldozers and cement mixers stand idle because no one apparently has been able to train the men to use them. The labor force is unstable because it is at the mercy of any bureaucrat's interpretation of the Plan. "Just when we get a good gang of men working," said...