Word: cementation
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...Base at Corpus Christi, Tex. As an aide to his good friend John David Reilly, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., he is helping build 60 cargo ships for Britain, 87 freighters for the Maritime Commission, a fleet of destroyers for the Navy. His Permanente Co. put up a cement plant in California and snagged a big Government contract by underbidding other Pacific Coast firms by an average...
...forth between the office and Washington, always a half-hour late for appointments that extended all the way around the clock. When the loan was finally approved by Jesse Jones last week, the plans were ready. Three days later the plant site was being cleared next to the Permanente cement works near Palo Alto. Dr. Hansgirg, who likes to wear slippers at work and think things over twice, was still bewildered. Said he of the blueprinting: "Somehow we did in three weeks what nobody can do in less than four months...
...These tents we are living in are not tents at all, but rather cabins. Canvas they do have, but the board floors, over cement blocks, plus clapboard siding, coupled with the glass doors and gas stoves, make for real convenience. However, that wasn't enough. No, the Army has to pass out spring beds, with brand-new mattresses. Still not enough; new mattress covers, great big pillows, also new pillow slips, sheets, and new blankets...
...Greenfield jump with its eight terraces for spectators is well known. From the edge of the cement take-off to the beginning of the level outrun, there is a drop of 120 feet. On February 22, Greenfield will hold an open invitation jump. Greenfield, too, has a marvelous toboggan chute, on which 60 to 70 miles an hour have been clocked...
...exhibition at the Vatican is the model of a combination church and air-raid shelter, built of cement with a V-shaped roof, camouflaged, complete with altar, pews, first-aid equipment. Dry comment of the papal newspaper, Osservatore Romano: "An unexpected development in the history of Christian...