Word: cemented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coast Guard had some trouble with the Tech Dinghies used in Sunday's races, and one cadet claimed that they are good "only for growing flowers and mixing cement." By the time the Cadets had the boats under control Sunday, the Crimson lead was unsurpassable...
...arid areas is not in getting the water-it is almost always to be had by deep drilling -but in holding it. The new solution is a lake lining of seepage-proof polyethylene plastic only six millimeters thick (asphalt and clay break up under water after a time; cement is too expensive). The two top companies in the field, both in California, are Palco, Inc. of Indio and Kepner Plastics of Torrance. In a bulldozed lake basin, plastic is laid down in strips up to 40 ft. wide and 400 ft. long at the rate of about half an acre...
Test at the Polls. Meanwhile, Socialist leaders talk of more nationalization (cement and drugs) and of pushing a plan to create a series of 15 semi-autonomous regions in Italy-another scheme that fits in with the party program but would only mean proliferating bureaucracy if carried out. All this has caused jitters among Italian businessmen, who have begun to hold back on investments and blame the apertura for contributing, if only psychologically, to a slight slackening of Italy's still impressive boom (the annual growth rate has slipped from 9.8% in 1961 to 7% this year, which parallels...
...chairman of Del Rosario Brothers Industries, which has a majority interest in the appliance company and in a pioneering credit company (of which he is president). He is also president of Philippine Investment-Management Consultants, Inc.. which has put together such deals as the refinery, a cement plant and a glass company-and pockets handsome profits for its services. In all, Del Rosario and his three brothers run industries worth $50 million. With careers based on ability and integrity, rather than pull and inherited millions, they personify a brave new band of Filipino industrialists...
...podium, Jacqueline Kennedy in the audience, and a nationwide TV audience looking on. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts made its debut with the opening of the $15.4 million Philharmonic Hall. It is still surrounded by a pocked and chugging wasteland of bulldozers and derricks, power shovels and cement mixers, which will eventually be a 14-acre landscaped park containing a repertory theater, a theater for dance and operetta, a library-museum, a building to house the Juilliard School of music, and (by 1965) the new $35 million Metropolitan Opera House. When completed in 1966, Lincoln Center will...