Word: cements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace. Meanwhile, by "buying from heirs" Somoza acquired coffee fincas and cattle ranches, parlayed them into a fortune estimated at $60 million-some $20 million more than Nicaragua's annual budget. He reputedly owned one-tenth of the country's farmland, plus interests in lumber, liquor, soap, cement, power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather roads were built...
...halted eight ships of other flags on the way to or from Haifa with Israeli cargoes, in defiance of the Constantinople Convention of 1888 and a specific U.N. Security Council ruling. But the log of the steamer Panaghia had the grimmest story to tell. Laden with 520 tons of cement for Eilat, the Greek ship under charter to Israel sailed from Haifa on May 24, commanded by brawny Veteran Skipper Kosta Koutales, and manned by a crew of ten. Next day, in routine order, it dropped anchor in Port Said to await permission to pass through the canal. Far from...
MINIMUM WAGE BOOST to $1 per hour has been extended to 36 more businesses working on Government contracts. Among them: luggage, fireworks, tobacco, evaporated milk, soap, fertilizer, cement, tags, surgical instruments. Total affected thus...
...Anybody who goes for barter deals is out of his mind," said Burma's ex-Premier U Nu-and he should know. Burma's Rangoon docks were still overflowing with the bartered Iron Curtain cement it could not use (TIME, May 21). Originally Burma thought that it had at least got a good price for its surplus rice-only to find that the Soviet Union was upping the prices of the goods it sent in exchange. All this was demoralizing enough. Last week Burma came face to face with another unsettling discovery: it really had no surplus rice...
...told police: "She just flew into a fit of wifely affection." An Ounce of Prevention. In Baytown, Texas, Mrs. Daniel E. Ellis took her husband for a drive while he was recuperating from a heart attack, lost control, bounced down a steep embankment, crashed into a truck and a cement mixer at the bottom, was uninjured but had to return her husband to the hospital for treatment of lacerations, explained: "I was driving to relieve him of any physical strain." Intermezzo. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Mary Feynman won a divorce after testifying that her physicist husband's Congo drums...