Word: cements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hooper, 25, a Los Angeles telephone-company lineman, who drove a shiny streamliner with a Class C (up to 300 cu. in.) V-8 engine over the cement-hard flats to six new International records, hitting more than 230 m.p.h. at distances from one kilometer to ten kilometers...
Professor Kinsey's undertaking reminds me of Mark Twain's story about the dinosaur that was reconstructed from three bones and 20 barrels of cement...
Other prisoners spent their days, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., working on Guiana's roads, forests and plantations, their nights locked in fetid barracks. For those who rebelled, there were solitary cells on St. Joseph Island, cement pits whose only opening was an iron grille. Few inmates long survived St. Joseph. One who did was the locally famed Paul Roussenq, an ex-soldier serving 20 years for attempted arson. Paul's reputation as the ace of all incorrigibles earned him a more or less permanent home on St. Joseph. He wrote frequent obscene letters to the prison...
...terminated by dismissal." But in July he ordered the Department of Justice to drop the suit against the Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. (now the Columbia Gas System, Inc.), and last week Barnes announced the expected dismissal (TIME, Aug. 31) of the eight-year-old case of United States v. Cement Institute. This suit could be dropped, he explained, because its objectives have been accomplished: dissolution of the Cement Institute, and abandonment by most of the 89 co-defendant cement companies of the uniform (basing-point) price system to which the Government had objected as a conspiracy...
Antoville plans to keep U.S. Plywood's sales rising with such products as Novoply, a composition board made from wood chips and shavings, and Zeprex, a Swedish-developed building material (made of cement, water and chemicals) that looks like concrete but can be sawed, chopped and nailed. Another U.S. Plywood plan for expansion: invasion of the wholesale lumber field, using logs cut from its own forests but not suitable for plywood...