Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Drive building. Only the three supplementary maintenance centers, and one connected office will remain outside the plant; offices in Dudley and Grays will be vacated. This reorganization will place the University's engineers, construction designers, telephone supervision crews, and office workers under his personal direction. A windowless cement blockhouse will be added for storage...
...taxes, new penalties for opposing the state; there would be meetings in which the people would be urged to denounce their own misdeeds and those of their neighbors. As the curtain of Ho's bloody conformity enveloped Haiphong and the Bay of Along, with their coal mines, docks, cement works and grotesquely jagged offshore islands, Ho Chi Minh made arrangements for a victory parade...
...Doubled production of such commodities as fabrics, trebled cement output...
...when combined with mechanics, sometimes finds surprising outlets. Some of the japes at Caltech make ordinary college-boy pranks look like arrangements of kindergarten blocks. On one occasion a senior opened his door to find a completely assembled and working Ford in his room. Another senior found an assembled cement mixer, and still another bumped into a meteorological balloon that stretched from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall-completely filled with water. Even dance decorations may inspire the young scientific mind. Once Dr. George Mayhew, general panjandrum of student affairs, picked up the phone and heard a voice...
...CEMENT SHORTAGE threatens to slow down the building boom in three key U.S. areas. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association reports that the 95 producing U.S. companies cannot meet expanding demand because of severe shortages in New England, some Midwestern states and Texas, where a grey market has started in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth...