Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Architect Stanford White asked him to sculpt her as a fitting finial for the Garden (then under construction), she was a labor of love, his first nude, his first ideal figure. Saint-Gau dens chose an Irish girl named Nellie Fitzpatrick as his model, made a 6-foot-tall cement study, then scaled it up to an 18-foot statue. Much...
Grand Scale. When Kaiser needed more cement for his prewar construction projects, he founded a cement company and one to supply sand and gravel. As an industrialist he followed this idea on a grander scale. Because steel shipments were slow, he organized Kaiser Steel at Fontana, Calif., with a $123 million Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan that brought considerable criticism from Congress and Wall Street alike. He dabbled in airplanes, and with Howard Hughes conceived the idea of a ten-engine cargo plane that never got off the drafting board. Later he founded Kaiser Aluminum...
...prime. He conceived Hawaii Kai, a $350 million model community on 6,000 acres that will eventually house 50,000 people. Before long, the then septuagenarian had cleared land and built the 1,100-room Hawaiian Village Hotel (which he sold to Conrad Hilton for $21.5 million), started a cement company, bought a radio and TV station, and established a Jeep-rental agency that provided pink Jeeps (Kaiser's favorite color...
Others attacked (number of targets classified): Naval bases, munitions factories, iron-and steelworks, cement plants, radar and flak sites, railyards and shops, and communications installations...
...Even in neutral or government-controlled areas, Allied pilots have learned that a line of trucks stopped on a road below usually means that the V.C. have set up an impromptu but effective tollbooth. With the piasters that their taxmen collect, well-dressed V.C. agents in Saigon buy medicines, cement, cloth and food for their troops...