Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several students in Guggenheim's architecture seminar at MIT are constructing a full-scale model of a granary to test Dogon waterproofing cement. The high, conical granaries have an approximate capacity of 2500 gallons, according to Guggenheim...
...already introduced agrarian reforms and pushed government participation in industry. But Allende inaugurated a far more sweeping program of government ownership and operation, beginning with total ownership of the giant copper operations, whose U.S. owners had been woefully slow in training Chileans for more important, better paying jobs. Cement, steel, electricity and telephones were also nationalized, along with both foreign and domestic banks. Labor unions were given control of new plants that went up in belts around Santiago, close by tidy neighbors of the middle class. With the government's tacit consent, peasants seized huge estates owned by absentee...
...Kroc's that has become an awe-inspiring legend throughout the chain. Last month, on one of his incessant inspection tours around the empire, he walked into a McDonald's in Canada -and exploded like a raw potato in hot grease. "There was gum on the cement patio, cigarette butts between the wheel stops for the cars," he says. "There was rust on the wrought-iron railing, and the redwood fence needed to be restained. I went in there and said to the manager: 'You get somebody to mop this goddamned floor right...
Well, two years have come and gone, and the Mr. Naturals who will endure anything, from September rainstorms to November snow flurries to cement seats, in order to watch the Crimson's football pugilists, are becoming impatient. More and more of them are wondering "just what does Resticball mean...
...would rule by decree. From his 400,000 subjects came not a murmur of protest, not even when he jailed the former opposition leader on flimsy charges. This week Sobhuza is expected to announce the formation of a commission to draw up a new constitution. Undoubtedly, it will cement his ultraconservative one-man rule...