Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cement would be needed in large amounts, and it would be advantageous not to have to bring it from the earth. If the moon has rocks containing the equivalent of lime and clay, cement might conceivably be made from them. There is a chance. Sowerby thinks, that the fierce heat of the unshielded sunlight may have disintegrated lunar rocks into ready-powdered oxides. This should simplify concrete-making in one small detail...
When businessmen of a feather flock together, does a conspiracy automatically exist? In the recent past, the answer of the U.S. Supreme Court has seemed to be yes. In the cement industry's basing-point price case five years ago. the Federal Trade Commission ruled-and the Supreme Court agreed-that the "parallel business behavior" of the cement companies in issuing identical price lists for their products was ample evidence of illegal conspiracy to restrain trade. But last week, in a decision that might set a far-reaching precedent, the Supreme Court had a change of heart...
...Western College for Women, understandably got little help from the undertakers. But parishioners told them a great deal-about undertakers failing to display their more modest caskets, about cemetery associations lobbying in state legislatures for laws to make cemetery burial even of ashes compulsory, about high-pressure salesmanship of cement vaults and airconditioned caskets as "the humane thing...
...machinery. Koehring Co. took one-fourth of the stock in the new company and a royalty of 5% on gross sales. In return, it gave its technical help, and undertook to train Japanese technicians in the U.S. Since then, the company has turned out $1,000,000 worth of cement-handling equipment, increased its backlog...
...help in these and other projects, the Japanese government has approved 293 technical-assistance agreements, 95% of them with American firms. But Koehring's is the first in the field of earth-moving and cement-handling machines. The Japanese business should eventually mean a sizable increase in the Koehring Co.'s sales, now running about $26 million a year...