Word: cementation
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...test of a new and speedy way to make airfield runways came when a New England airdrome for fighters was used for Flying Fortresses. The runways, made of a mixture of soil and cement, came through handsomely, stood up under the beating of B-17 landings as well as they had taken the lighter swoops of P-40s. Thus a short cut to hard-surface roads as well as airdromes was war-proved...
Never intended to replace reinforced concrete, soil cement has far exceeded engineering expectations. Engineers had known that the ground where cement bags were shaken out soon hardened. But soil cement stayed in the rule-of-shovel stage until...
Since then engineers have found, first by trial & error, then by more exact methods, that almost any soil may be used. On small jobs, little special equipment is needed. The ground is plowed, harrowed and cleared of larger stones. Bags of cement are spotted in a checkerboard pattern. Spread evenly, the cement is mixed dry with ordinary farm machinery, (disc and spring-tooth harrows are good), then sprinkled with water and mixed wet until an even color shows that the mix is right...
Panama wanted to know what had happened to 10,000 undelivered machetes ordered from the U.S. (the machetes had been sent to the Solomon Islands). Panamanians also wanted machinery to manufacture cement ("Get us that machinery and we will erect a statue of you in concrete"). Said a Panamanian who heard one of the Vice President's speeches: "He speaks our language very well, and the unusual thing about him is that, unlike the average gringo who chooses the simplest words, Wallace uses ten-dollar words...
...ceremoniously presented it to the doorman. For the opening of The Covered Wagon, Indians were brought from their reservation "by special permission of the U.S. Government." Grauman's best-known stunt was to catch the footprints of such stars as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in wet cement-a trick that was later used for John Barrymore's profile. Quipped Barrymore, as he caressed the cement: "I feel like the face on the barroom floor...