Word: cemented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important Afro-Asian deviation from the Communist line revolves around the Marxist theory of the victory of the proletariat, according to Schwartz. Despite a gradual shift in emphasis to Russian and Chinese national interests, the identification of the Communist Party with the international working class is still "the cement which holds world Communism together." The "implicit ideologies" of the emergent nations, on the other hand, claim to speak for the entire people of their countries, and hence are quite nationalistic, Schwartz maintained...
...avoid wasting time in the horrendous Lagos traffic-where auto trips are measured in the number of cigarettes consumed rather than in minutes-Sir Abubakar lives in a modern, two-story cement house near his office with his wife and nine children-plus the swarming families of his chauffeur and police orderly. In the Moslem tradition, his wife does not appear in public; for formal dinner parties, Abubakar borrows the Irish wife of a fellow minister to act as hostess. Up for prayers at 6:30, Abubakar breakfasts in time to arrive at his office precisely at 8:15, heads...
...destroyed during the Korean war, but the Reds say that by 1956 it was already back to prewar levels, and that since then output has doubled and even trebled. They claim that last year the North produced ten times as much steel as South Korea, five times more cement, just as much grain. Unfortunately, South Korea, badly led in the last days of Syngman Rhee and hardly led at all now, is suffering from economic confusion. It has received $2.5 billion in American aid and is urgently asking for more, yet has announced a further devaluation of its debased currency...
Kaiser is so bullish about Hawaii's future that this year he opened a $13.5 million Permanente Cement plant with a capacity (1.7 million barrels annually) just about equaling the present cement consumption of Hawaii. He is confident that new buildings will rise to use his cement, but his move got him into a feud with Hawaii's powerful Dillingham family, which owns a share of a huge cement plant. Kaiser has also built the $4 million Kaiser Medical Center, the islands' most modern hospital, has built two clinics and is planning a third to accommodate...
...projects, which have been financed by loans and vast transfusions from his industrial empire. But he is confident that profits will come, is gradually paring down the traditionally high cost of Hawaiian construction by buying in large quantities, adopting efficiency techniques, using such local materials as coral (for cement) and volcanic cinder (for building blocks...