Word: cementation
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...church steeple crashed to the ground. Children walking home from Sunday school were carried from the streets with pulverized glass and cement ground into their cheeks. A department store was in flames. Housewives caught table-setting were driven to emergency wards to have chunks of their own glass and dishes dug from their flesh. Nineteen hours later the town's raid squads, plus soldiers and ATS girls on leave, were still digging for bodies, live & dead, in the debris...
...China has few good roads, few hydro stations. A few tens of millions for cement plants, road-building machinery, turbines and power lines could animate this nascent economy to a degree out of all proportion to the investment. China can pay interest in tung oil, tungsten, ramie cloth, embroideries, cheap pottery and in service to U.S. tourists...
...Reorganized under Dahlberg, Celotex acquired control of Certainteed Products Corp. (roofing, gypsum, plaster), began to merchandise many of the products required to build a house. Celotex makes Cemesto-a waterproof, fire-resistant building material 1½ inches thick, made of an inner core of Celotex faced with an asbestos cement-and with Cemesto hopes to mass-produce future U.S. housing...
...reason, as explained by Ball Manufacturer A. G. Spalding & Bros.: The rubber cement used in the 1943 models is reprocessed rubber. It had unexpectedly hardened and the result was a dead ball. Spalding promised better results with a new cement...
Costs are a fraction (about 20%) of concrete construction. But the most spectacular saving is in time. Soil-cement enthusiasts boast (and deliver) "a runway in a week; an airport in a month...