Word: cemented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...northeast and Thanh Hoa at the southern apex. Around Hanoi are a thermal power plant, an engineering facility, key bridges and the Phuc Yen airfield, where Chinese-supplied MIG-17s are based. In addition to its vast port, Haiphong's potential targets include two power plants, two cement factories, two airfields and three storage areas that hold 70% of the country's POL (petroleum, oil, lubricant) supplies. Also within the envelope: 22 SAM sites, a network of earthen irrigation dikes in the fertile Red River delta, extensive mining operations...
...incipient desire for goods and services behind the rusting Iron Curtain. It was with Bonn's tacit approval that Krupp General Manager Berthold Beitz began reconnoitering Eastern Europe in 1959. Beitz has since signed deals worth $72 million for everything from fishing-boat engines for Bulgaria to a cement factory for Yugoslavia. Other industrialists followed. All told, West German exports to the East have quintupled since 1955 to more than $500 million a year. West German trade missions are active in Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland...
...whose object was to suggest the unlikeliest partners for stalled elevator cars (samples: Jean-Paul Sartre and Norman Vincent Peale; Defense Secretary McNamara and a draft-card burner; any Con Edison executive and any New York housewife). Trapped office workers improvised candles with copies of Book Week and rubber cement...
...industrial production increased 84% instead of 80% as planned. The average annual rate of industrial growth was 9.1%, more than double that of the U.S. The Soviet Union holds first place in the world for production of granulated sugar, butter, woolen fabrics, metal-cutting machines, iron ore, coke, cement, reinforced concrete and timber. Obviously, the present changes were not caused by the painful sputter of the Soviet economic engine. Nor have the Communists seen advantages in capitalist methods. The reform means the transition to policy that conforms to the Soviet Union's present possibilities. By abolishing the economic councils...
...just begun. And we took a look at the source of water, a fetid, sandy pond, covered with insects. I asked if they drank it like that, and our interpreter said yes--after letting it settle a few minutes. Much discussion during the day of their building a permanent cement well, but they are skeptical...