Word: cemented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along March Point on Washington's Fidalgo Island, where three generations of the March family let their sheep out to graze on bucolic farm land, there are now Shell and Texaco refineries and there will soon be a $15 million Lone Star Cement plant. Near by, at sleepy Port Townsend, Crown Zellerbach has built a pulp mill...
When you walk up Warren St. in Roxbury to go to the office of Melvin Miller, change is all around you. You can hardly hear yourself think, because bulldozers are flattening out what used to be a city block. The only think you can smell is crushed cement rubble kicked up by the bulldozers...
Inside Mel Miller's office, the bulldozers and cement are shut out, but you don't leave change behind. Miller, publisher and half of the official writing staff of Roxbury's seven-month-old Negro newspaper, the Bay State Banner sits down, puts his feet up on the desk, and begins to talk excitedly about the changes going on in Roxbury. He touches on urban renewal and construction of new buildings, mentions new schools and community centers, and then federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about...
...past year, a complex and ambitious program under American AID for South Viet Nam has pumped into that country an average of some $30 million worth of goods a month ranging from cement to penicillin, from sheet steel to automobile tires. This effort is essential to bolster Viet Nam's war-buffeted economy, and, of course, to support the war effort. But as of last week, no one in Saigon or in Washington had any real idea of how much of that matériel had been used for its intended purpose, how much had helped to line profiteers...
...Saigon sources, the Cholon Chinese control more than 50% of South Viet Nam's imports, nearly all of the nation's foreign exchange, and most of the dry-goods and textile factories in the country. They have a sizable hand in other commodities ranging from clocks to cement, steel to soup meat...