Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crate, they discovered a mask and air tube for breathing, containers of fruit juice and water, a bottle for urine, pliers, bolt cutters, eleven smashed padlocks and $250,000 worth of loot, including rare coins, silver ingots and a case of 1934 French champagne. Inside the footlocker were three cement blocks...
...knocked the padlocks off eleven other storage containers, rifled them and put his jack and the broken locks inside the crate. Then he replaced the locks with new ones so that nothing would seem to have been disturbed. One theory was that he had intended to put the cement blocks in the crate too, so that it would weigh as much as when first carried in to the storage area. The clever thief's plan had been to walk out of the bank, then have the box delivered to him. Bank officials might not have known anything was missing...
...National Economic Plan was 99.7% fulfilled in the first quarter, but that figure is misleading. The Statistical Administration listed the output of 57 products that are basic to the Soviet economy, and 23 were down from the same period in 1978. Such industrial necessities as steel, chemicals, fertilizer, cement, nonferrous metals and forest products were below last year's production levels; such dietary staples as milk, vegetable oil and butter were also produced in smaller quantities...
...Cement Jungle. Hilles Cinema, Monday...
John Maynard Keynes couldn't have put it better when he said, "In the long run we are all dead." But despite cold weather cramps, bursting blisters and thighs numb from 26.2 miles of cement, thousands of death-defying runners triumphantly crossed the Prudential Center finish line Monday...