Word: cementation
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...Wilhelmstrasse sidewalks outside Adolf Hitler's gadget-ridden Chancellery are a number of vast covered pits. From four of them slabs of cement rise and part, and out push anti-aircraft guns. One other is a huge elevator which swallows into the Chancellery's great catacombs anything from a bicycle to a ten-ton tank. Every evening last week, as dusk rubbed out the building's heroic contours, a bus drove up on the sidewalk and disappeared into the ground...
Some time ago General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the émigrés of 1940, went to see Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears, a tall, hearty, wealthy part-owner of shoe and cement factories and of a hotel chain, then (as in World War I) liaison officer between French and British High Commands. The British had just about concluded that General de Gaulle was a mediocrity, who by accident had achieved world prominence, not to be taken very seriously. But his story to General Spears was entirely plausible...
Last July, Seattle opened its floating bridge, the longest, oddest pontoon bridge in the world. Its four-lane concrete highway, one and a quarter miles long, is the deck of 25 cement pontoons. The bridge actually floats, seven feet deep, in the water. As if the engineers had not had a hard enough job, they had also to include a draw-span, to take care of lake shipping. The draw-span section is made up of two pontoons. One forms a Y, the other floats between its arms, sliding out to close the bridge, slipping in to leave 200 feet...
...what it meant: freedom of religion, speech, assembly, press, not the hate-engendering, terrorizing tactics of the Mobilizers. He called his organization the New York Council for American Traditions, Inc. One night a bundle of garbage was dumped on Harry's head; another night, two bags of cement. But that kind of thing didn't faze Harry...
Hired Wife (Universal) is the old wheeze about the rich young boss (brusque Brian Aherne) and his dreamy young secretary (Rosalind Russell). This time the boss marries the secretary early to save his cement business, frowns and whines through a kissless marriage, shuffles around town in game pursuit of a gold digger (Virginia Bruce) with a personality as hard as his best cement. Some witty, well-timed dialogue plus the articulate gestures and grimaces of paunchy Funnyman Robert Benchley, who gives his first cinema demonstration of his finesse with the mandolin, keep the film from becoming an also...