Word: cementation
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...Staff of the Italian Air Force, announced the withdrawal of Italian airmen from Channel bases and the imminent arrival of Nazi airmen in the Mediterranean area: ''The common work will bind ever more those spirits already tempered by the conflict that has taken place and will cement them in a more intimate brotherhood of arms...
Three years ago a group of its citizens, deciding that the War Between the States was over and that they should do what they could to bind up the nation's wounds, sponsored a post-season all-star football game "to cement friendship between the North and South." The first North-South game attracted a small crowd. Last week, 14,000 spectators crammed into Cramton Bowl for the third annual battle between Blue & Gray. The Yankees had a powerful team, led by Cornell's All-America Quarterback Walter Matuszczak. But the Rebels were 2-to-1 favorites. They...
...appear too heavy for the footings and foundations; its heating pipes set in the floor, instead of visible radiators, its steel-&-gunite walls. Such walls have never before been built-they are made of steel props interwoven with flexible laths of steel and paper, on which is sprayed gunite (cement shot from guns)-the whole only 2¼-in. thick. Architect Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. Its columns were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete...
Next week, when the excavating will be completed, workmen will construct the wooden forms for the cement walls. A few days later the din of concrete mixers will begin. Consisting of three floors, the basement will house rows upon rows of stacks. Each floor is seven feet, six inches high, an easy height for reaching books...
...cape thrown over his shoulder, stood on the rear platform of his car, waved to a crowd at Johnstown while a high-school band played and cheers thundered in vast wavelike surges against the train. Down the Conemaugh River the train moved slowly past the fivemile, $7,600,000 cement flood-control walls that the President had promised Johnstown residents four years before. A sign along the banks read: "Thanks, Mr. President." In Pittsburgh, masses lined the streets solidly, cheering, roaring, waiting: Carnegie-Illinois steelworkers at the plant at Homestead, who last week greeted Wendell Willkie with boos; reverential Negroes...