Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scores of other nooks and crannies of Government, less dramatic ways have been found to eliminate competition with private business. The Defense Department has shut down 24 scrap-metal operations, seven bakeries, nine laundries, a chain factory, a caustic-soda plant, four cement-mixing plants, a tire-retreading plant, two garden nurseries and four ice plants. The Navy, which has been manufacturing uniforms for years, has closed its clothing factory. It is bringing in more private yards to overhaul its ships, has boosted such contracts from $34 million in 1953 to $82 million in fiscal...
...many pieces, not to overthrow a monolithic government in the name of individual liberty. Dr. Sun Yat-sen used to argue that, unlike Europe, China had not too little but too much liberty without organization, "and we have become a heap of sand." What was needed was the cement. Chiang's Kuomintang tried to provide it. Slowly, while tirelessly expounding Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, Chiang forged his own philosophy of rule. Deeply imbued with Confucian thought, it was a theory based on precept, on the loyalty of subject to ruler...
...Matsu, diplomatic weapons--still backed by rifles and regulars--must take precedence. One of the strongest weapons that the U.S. now has for negotiation is recognition of the Chinese Communist government. The United States should extend such diplomatic recognition as part of an over-all settlement and thus help cement the Western alliance, reassure the Asian neutrals, and offer an appealing bargaining point to the Chinese in return for important Communist concessions...
North Viet Nam, one of the world's most densely populated regions and never selfsupporting, once imported 300,000 tons of rice a year from the south. It paid with its coal, textiles and cement. Thanks to the Communists, however, trade in the north is now at a standstill, and there is heavy industrial unemployment. French and neutralist Indian businessmen are moving out. All but Communist official cars have disappeared. Ironically, Ho's own picture is becoming the symbol of Ho's economic distress: Viet Minh currency, which bears Ho's picture, is worth less than...
...Brazilians reported that Higgins Inc., New Orleans shipbuilders, talked seriously of investing in a shipyard project, that a Texas group was buying shares in a machinery-import corporation, that two U.S. investment syndicates were interested in a new $2,500,000 cement plant...