Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency. "They came roaring into Chi through a night torched by the steel-mill fires, eerie and hellish," writes Wakefield. They reach a curve in the road and Sonny fumbles, realizing it is "too late, too late even to put on the brake." They head straight into a cement abutment and then smash...
...York is nothing more than the most efficient way of stacking corporations one on top of another. The most efficient color seems to be grey. What New York efficiency has given to the country is the color grey. Grey streets, grey buildings, grey skies, grey smoke, grey cement, even grey snow...
...Industrial fabricates it, the factory finds itself a kind of later-day artist's studio, where the artist treats a work's completion like an unveiling. Last week Tony Smith was busy chauffeuring selected friends across the Hudson and through the back streets of Newark to the cement-block building where his new creation had taken final form-a 16-ft., six-ton steel structure called The Snake...
...farther ahead of productivity gains than in its largest industry, construction. Wage increases average about 21 % a year, and laborers in Connecticut, Missouri, Florida and Kansas have recently won pay increases of 30% a year. Under new contracts, lathers in Cleveland will earn $ 10.71 an hour by 1972, and cement masons $10.41. Success at the bargaining table seems only to have heightened construction labor's appetite for make-work arrangements. Detroit pipefitters require a "heat-patrol" 24 hours a day, seven days a week when temporary heat is used to permit cold-weather construction, even though the equipment...
...even more because of the lack of any real life around them. The textures and rhythms of human existence are nowhere to be found. Unable to find any real life around them, and needing something to relate to, they are forced to find what life they can in the cement, glass and steel. They lavish eight hours a day, a quarter of their life, on those structures, forcing part of themselves into the buildings. But the part of their personalities they invest in the buildings, and the part they pull out for sheer companionship, begin to stare back at them...