Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plastinail, a flooring compound that Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. processes out of Douglas fir bark, flows like cement, then hardens, can be nailed like wood...
...Safeguard of Character. In the course of its inquiries the committee came across a lot of evidence to confirm what every experienced serviceman and ex-serviceman knows: that pride in one's unit is the cement, whether at base, in the line, or in P.W. camps of Korea. "Many servicemen exhibited pride in themselves and their units," the committee reported, discussing the one encouraging portent of the P.W. camps. "This was particularly pronounced where they had belonged to the same unit for years. They stood by one another . . . If a soldier were sick, his fellow soldiers took care...
...last week the warrant had not been served, Bolanos was at liberty, and Comercial Guatemalteca was still in business. The government even granted the firm a license to import 4,000 metric tons of frijoles (black beans), now selling at scarcity prices in Guatemala, and 100,000 sacks of cement, also in short supply. Plenty of Guatemalans were still willing to give Castillo Armas the benefit of the doubt, but they were waiting and hoping for a somewhat better explanation of why the President had allowed himself to be backed into such an embarrassing position...
...their Appropriations committees, revised plans for the building of the new Air Force Academy, in which the vast expanses of glass in the original drawings (to which the masonry lobby objected) were hastily painted over so as to show more politically safe bricks, stones and cement. Thus reassured, the Senate committee voted to restore Academy building funds that had recently been deleted by the House...
...kitty of $4,000,000 (about 50% of its net worth), two years later had enough stock to oust the management. Last year Pennroad used South American's kitty to buy another gold company with $6,000,000 more in the till, then merged the two, diversified into cement and pipelines. As a result, South American's profits on 1955's first six months' gross are almost as high as for all of 1954. Another Pennroad venture, this time with South American Gold: buying the $31 million National Department Stores chain, whose stock was, selling...