Word: cements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose 13 members (including B.G.) were Histadrut members. Histadrut is not only a trade union, enrolling 75% of all Israeli workers; it is also, by far, Israel's largest industrial employer, owning or managing 14% of all the nation's industry, including a virtual monopoly on cement production, bus transportation, agriculture. Charged the General Zionists: the Histadrut-Mapai alliance was strangling free enterprise, obstructing new ventures...
...Friendly Five" men's shoes at $5 a pair. Invading the North, he bought a tanning plant in Michigan, started a box-making division and a subsidiary to furnish low-cost cement, chemicals and finishes to the manufacturing plants. By 1941, his integrated company had 43 retail stores of its own, 10,000 other outlets, and sales of $24 million. Last year, with outlets in 18 nations, sales hit a new peak of $84 million, and General netted $4,000,000. Just before buying Johnston & Murphy, Maxey Jarman expanded by buying Massachusetts' W. L. Douglas...
...some ways, the Benefactor has taken good care of his personal estate, a country of 2,212,000 people. He has boosted farm production, introduced some industry (e.g., cement, textiles), built roads, piers, hotels. The results, however, are by no means as splendid as the Dominican Information Service's full-page ads in U.S. newspapers and magazines make them out to be. The average Dominican farmer remains wretchedly poor...
Cambridge was more tolerant of Beaton's talents, but Beaton's father, a timber merchant, was not. After Cambridge, Cecil was put to work for a Mr. Schmiegelow, typing invoices for bags of cement. A young worldling of his acquaintance took pity. "Take it easy," he advised, "and become a friend of the Sitwells...
...defense spending eases, the economy will still be well buttressed by the $24-billion-a-year industrial plant expansion program. Truce or no truce, businessmen show no signs of shelving plans for new rolling mills, pipelines, cement plants. In fact, cuts in military production will release a greater supply of raw materials, give an even greater boost to factory expansion...