Word: cementation
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...sight of scaffolding, the smell of fresh cement, the sound of winches have become common in cities where until recently weeds had spread a green blanket over the rubble. Large new neon signs began to appear, and at night-when darkness hid the war scars-Frankfurt's Bahnhofsplatz looked like a corner of Times Square. Shop windows were full of goods. Once surly salesmen now treated the customer with the respect due a man who had real money in his pockets...
...fight to save the "Pittsburgh plus" basing-point system of setting steel prices. The company promised to adhere "to a pricing method that does not conflict with the requirements of the Federal Trade Commission." But U.S. Steel, which had voluntarily abandoned basing points when they were outlawed in the cement industry (TIME, July 19), had not given up the fight for good; it had merely shifted the battleground. What it had lost in the courts, Big Steel, and all other steelmakers, hoped to regain from Congress...
...steelmen pinned their hopes mainly on Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, whose special Senate subcommittee was just beginning to pry into the entire hubbub. Capehart said that the Supreme Court's decision in the cement case had thrown all of industry into confusion on prices. He thought the "only pricing practice which may be followed in any competitive industry where freight is a substantial item . . . with assurance of legality is an f.o.b. mill price. Any other pricing system may be found illegal...
...winning a $5,000 scholarship, a Nash car, and untold publicity. Her measurements: height, 5 ft. 9 in.; weight, 138 Ibs.; bust 37 in. Her talent: she played the vibraharp. Said "Bebe": "I am only a farm girl. I drive a tractor. I clean the chicken coops. I mix cement...
...body hit a skein of telephone wires, caught for a second and plunged on, ripping the wires loose from the walls. She landed, groaning, on the cement courtyard, the wire still wrapped in a tangle around her legs. There was an instant of silence. Then the whole neighborhood was in an uproar...