Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as the world bought Zion candy bars, Zion cookies. Zion lace, Zion books and Zion cement it could smile as it would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from...
...motor ship of 5,113 gross tonnage, Leningrad built in 1931, trimly painted, carrying a cargo of cement, mica, chalk, fuller's earth, Caucasian wine, oil of apricots, juniper (gin) berries. All her officers and able seamen had individual outside cabins amidship. She carried two young stewardesses to feed and amuse her picked crew of young cadets. Even her name KNM (Kim} was chosen for pronunciation by non-Russian tongues. Aside from the motto "Ahead To World's Revolution" inscribed in the crew's game room (equipped with piano and radio) she took every precaution...
...railroads or any other industry since, of all the makers of capital goods, they have suffered the most in Depression. In 1929 there were 1,200 locomotives ordered. In 1932 U. S. locomotive builders received orders for three- two for domestic industrial use and one for a Brazilian cement company which was built by American Locomotive Co. in its Canadian shops. Last year they got orders for 17-twelve for domestic railroads, four for industrial use, one for the Philippine Railway. In 1929 the railroads ordered 111,000 freight cars. In 1932 the car builders got orders for about...
...record themselves. Ishchenko's brigade gets the honor. It is partly like a sporting event, more like a battle. There are two deserters; one brigader runs several miles from the hospital where his wife is having a baby, to be on time; at a crucial moment the cement runs out: then some blundering fool cuts off the water to attach a metre; it rains; a storm comes, knocking out the telephone wires, imperiling vital communications. One of the briggaders loses a hand between two shunting flatcars. The foreman, incoherent with rage, implores his superior engineer, who he thinks...
...underground mechanics, equivalent to ten dreadnaughts buried in a mountain, connected by poison-gas-tight tunnels and served by miles of subterranean railways on which projectiles and even guns can be rushed from point to point. Hochwald is almost entirely on the surface, a two-mile breastwork of cement and steel blocking German advance and called by General Max "The Giant's Trenches...