Word: cementation
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...Kaiser Steel Corp., which owns the big $123 million Fontana steel plant, his biggest moneymaker. The next best moneymaker, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., is controlled (49.7%) by the Henry J. Kaiser Co. and another investment company, Kaiser Industries, Inc. Between them they also control four other profitable companies: Permanente Cement Co., with a 30.4% stock interest; Kaiser Metal Products Inc. (55%), Kaiser Community Homes (50%), and Consolidated Builders Inc. (22.5%). On the other hand, the two companies own only 9.5% interest in the money-losing, automaking Kaiser-Frazer Corp...
...quad. Just to make sure, he reached into his inside pocket to see if the invitation was still there. It was: "You are cordially invited to attend an informal dance. See you there. O.K.! Joan S." This term was going to be different, starting that night. He would cement relations with Joan, meet a bevy of new girls, and never let another weekend go by. He was going to bow to the system from now on, even if it meant calling up a week and a half in advance...
...report holds out little hope that any U.S. city would fare much better. The large windows of U.S. office buildings might relieve the stress on the skeleton by blowing in immediately-and slicing anyone near them to ribbons. The brick or cement-block walls would turn into murderous missiles...
...manifesto, a twelve-page pamphlet, had a red & white cover and a red & white program inside. Doctrinaire Socialists were promised a little more nationalization: sugar, cement, cold storage facilities and water supply (about a third of Britain's water systems are still privately owned). But the emphasis was on welfare, not state ownership. The greater part of the manifesto talked pleasantly of full employment, child welfare, and the "full and free development of every individual person...
...Siberia where imperial dynasts often dumped political foes. * Between 1939 and 1945 the Japanese transformed Hainan into another kind of imperial base. On the undeveloped, malarial outpost, they established military camps, dredged a deepwater harbor at Yulin on the south coast, developed rich iron mines, built a hydroelectric plant, cement factory and fish cannery. The Japanese enterprises have deteriorated because the Hainanese lack replacement parts and maintenance skill. Hsueh is tearing down one of two arsenals and shipping it to Formosa, "We don't have the money to run it," he claims. "I just hope the Generalissimo will ship...