Word: cementation
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...defines himself as a parlor wit who thinks of radio as a parlor instrument ("some homes got them next to toilets"). But he seems hard-pressed to transport the highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...
Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia is Mr. Big No. 3 of Indian Big Business.* He owns six newspapers, an airline, a big insurance company, a bank and most of India's cement factories. He also has four wives. Last month Businessman Dalmia, a Hindu, summoned the press to pink lemonade, vanilla ice cream and green gage plums on the lawn of his big house in New Delhi. Then he read a 2,500-word statement. "I ask that people treat the cow and look after it as well as they look after their mother."† Soon thereafter, his six newspapers began...
...handles the heavy cement sections that will reinforce steel girders on the first five floors. Twenty-four stories in all, the edifice has been advertised as "the tallest building in New England." It will take two and a half years to complete...
Over two days, the traps banged 48 times. Life had run out for the men who had exterminated 700,000 inmates of Mauthausen concentration camp. Some of their victims had been thrown into whirling cement mixers, tossed to ravenous dogs, buried alive, used for laboratory experiments. Three G.I. executioners made death for the killers relatively merciful...
Across the nation strikes flickered here & there. But they were mostly the normal sparks from clashing industrial gears: 16,500 building-trades workers in Detroit; 14,000 employees at Inland Steel; 7,500 cement workers in the northeastern states. The only major strike was the month-old walkout of 340,000 telephone workers, who seemed on the verge of coming to terms this week...