Word: cementation
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...unapproachable. Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him. When, over the extravagant construction of a new wing to the clinic, she reads him the riot act, he turns away in scorn, falls off the balcony to the cement ground floor...
Thomas A. Edison Inc., maker of cement...
...snatch gringo capitalists' belongings is quite another thing, stupid and unconstitutional. Prominently the great independent daily El Universal featured an editorial from the New York Herald Tribune remarking how wrong it was for Governor Bartolome Vargas Lugo of the State of Hidalgo to seize a $300,000 cement plant from its British owners (TIME, June 6). For once it seemed that Wall Street and Mexico City could enthusiastically clasp hands, but the circumstances were very special...
...wavy-haired Mayor of Lyons! whose so-called Radical-Socialist Party won the French Chamber of Deputies election (TIME, May 16). Not the least bit radical. M. Herriot's party decided in caucus last week not to join forces with the mild French Socialists whose support is needed to cement a strong Herriot Cabinet majority. Taking a chance that the Socialists would not seriously oppose him, M. Herriot called by arrangement on new French President Albert Lebrun, was asked to form a Cabinet and produced, 15 hours later, the following safe & sane slate of predominantly Radical-Socialist tabbies...
Having first seized the cement plant, Governor Lugo next answered these pressing questions...