Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rebounding from the slump that hit most of U.S. business last year, steelmakers' profits rose by 40%, while big gains were also recorded in aircraft (59%), building equipment (34%), textiles (30%), office equipment (29%), chain-store retailing (24.5%), rubber (21%) and Pharmaceuticals (17%), not to mention cement, up a solid 236%. Other increases came in tobacco, broadcasting, food products and electronics. Among the leaders...
...Budapest, a conference of national Communist parties, convening behind closed doors, did little to cement the cracks of disunity. Only 52 of the 88 invited parties bothered to come to the session, which was sponsored by the Russians. At week's end, those who did come were reported close to an agreement on an agenda and a date for a Communist summit conference in Moscow that the Kremlin has been promoting for years. The leaders had trouble, however, disguising the fact that most of the bloc will welcome such an event with a lack of enthusiasm bordering on dismay...
Saturday morning on Seventh Street was ugly. The sun rose coldly on blocks of burned out buildings, piles of cement-encrusted bricks, charred wood reaching silently into the air. And all over there was a horrible coat of sweat--the dew of the morning and the hosing-down of the night. Smoke hung quietly in the air; the yellow-brown tear gas was still there...
...Wrong Convention. The next morning the President felt, as he told friends, like a man who had shed a sack of cement.*He flew out to Chicago to address the National Association of Broadcasters, quipped that one of his aides had told him: "It looks to me like you are going to the wrong convention in Chicago." In a notably restrained speech, he made an uncharacteristically modest confession: "I understand, far better than some of my severe and perhaps intolerant critics would admit, my own shortcomings as a communicator...
...encourage the growth of barley." The game was carried to Canada in the mid-1700s by Scottish soldiers who melted cannon balls into 60-lb. "irons" for a frolic on the frozen St. Lawrence. Pioneer farmers ringed hard wood blocks with iron or used lard buckets filled with cement...