Word: cements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suez. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold flew to Cairo to discuss release of the Danish freighter Inge Toft, seized by his Suez Canal officials last May for carrying Israeli cement and potash destined for Hong Kong and Tokyo. On the morning of Hammarskiold's arrival, Nasser's Al Ahram printed Nasser's declaration that the U.A.R. would hold the Inge Toft's cargo on the ground (rejected by the U.N. Security Council's decision in 1951) that his country was in "a state of war" with Israel. Beneath the autographed pictures of Nehru, Tito, Chou...
...retired army men to guard the Haitian border, mobilized the "Horsemen of the East"-a private army led by Cattleman (and former consul in New York) Felix Bernardino. At sea, suspicious Dominican gunboats stopped the U.S. freighter Florida State three times on one of its regular cement-carrying round trips between Puerto Rico and Florida. In the air, a Dominican PSI fired a burst of machine-gun fire and lowered its wheels to force a U.S. Air Force C-47 to land at Ciudad Trujillo for identification...
...Torroja's application of the Bernoullian formula, see cut. The riblike shapes cover a pergola outside his Institute of Construction and Cement near Madrid...
Mineral Deposit. In Dayton, after paying $15 for a C.O.D. package marked "fragile," Mrs. Dorothea Johnson found it contained a 10-lb. chunk of cement...
...feet may be bigger (size 8½) than most of the siren prints left behind in the Hollywood cement; she may have more freckles than the makeup department can cover; she may have a voice she herself describes as resembling "Merman trying to reach the candy stand in the lobby, except when I shift into high, and then it sounds like Lily Pons when she's kidding.'' But she also has a pair of long and memorable legs-"They start from the shoulders," says one admiring choreographer-and she can make them do anything she wants...