Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the internal Cuban investment in economic development is being channeled into the agricultural sector, basic industries necessary for the nation's other economic needs are being encouraged. A new electrial plant at Mariel in Havana province has just been opened. Next spring two cement plants will begin operation. The opening of these cement plants, which the Cubans say will meet all their requirements, is crucial. For when cement production rises, serious work on the appalling shortage of decent rural housing can begin in earnest...
...Cement Mixer, Burt Lancaster doing acrobatics, Jayne Mansfield playing the violin, Lauren Bacall reading Casey at the Bat, and James Cagney and Jack Lemmon dancing...
Heavy winds and a small, cement-hard field accentuated every Harvard weakness as the Crimson soccer team slopped to a 3-2 decision over Tufts in Medford yesterday. First-half goals by Ahmed Yehia, Lutz Hoeppner, and Geoff Keppel gave Harvard a cushion that survived two late-game Jumbo flukes in a contest that was neither as close nor as exciting as the final score...
...airport was brand-new six years ago -and outmoded before the cement on its new runways was dry. Its single-entrance internal road system has been dubbed the "world's largest cul-de-sac," and last fall it suffered a monumental traffic tie-up similar to Kennedy's disaster last week. But things are about to change. The city has approved a $500 million program to expand the airport...
...sense, virtually all large U.S. companies are conglomerates; U.S. Steel, for example, not only turns out metals but also builds bridges and sells cement. However, in Wall Street parlance, conglomerates are generally those companies that have adopted a diversification-by-merger philosophy as a way of corporate life-and most of them share Harold Geneen's distaste for the term. After all, says Ralph Ablon, who has built his Ogden Corp. into a far-reaching (shipbuilding, metals, processed foods) conglomerate, the word connotes a company with "no unity, no purpose and no design."* To most image-conscious companies...