Word: cements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Supreme Court outlawed the cement industry's basing point system* two years ago, many businessmen in other industries felt that they too were breaking the law, although they weren't sure just what the law was. The Federal Trade Commission did not clear up matters any when it told U.S. business that basing-point prices were entirely legal so long as they did not result in identical pricing that smacked of "collusion." To be on the safe side, the entire steel industry voluntarily junked its basing point system, sold steel F.O.B. the mill and waited...
...government rushed up two army battalions from the provinces. Police brought out their tear gas. After routing Communist-led student rioters from a university-building strongpoint, government forces advanced into the northern working-class districts. There the rioters fought stubbornly with small hand grenades made of cement, scrap iron and dynamite, apparently brought from the tin mines. Finally the army, firing a few mortar shells, drove the rioters into the hills rimming...
...Harvard, suspicious eyes turned to the Square, Hushed voices asked: is the concrete real? is the cement truly 1:4? and, most awful of all, just what lies beneath...
...Russian airfield near Berlin one day last week, a passerby paused to ask a cement worker what he was doing. The worker looked up sullenly and muttered: "It's all for peace, my friend, all for peace...
...more than a year, East Germany's bricklayers, asphalt, steel and cement workers have gone through an unprecedented period of full employment, building runways, flak emplacements and barrack? for the Soviet air force. East German taxpayers paid the costs. German labor offices had to recruit thousands of workers. If the labor offices failed, their functionaries were demoted or arrested. If German workers demurred, they were told: "Well, you can go into the People's Police or the uranium mines if you prefer." There is now a massive and menacing concentration of Russian air power in the Soviet zone...