Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it comes to civic action, though, the Marines insist that the "gimme and giveaway" days are gone for good. Says Colonel Holmgrain: "We will not lay so much as the first brick or provide the first pound of cement for a school or clinic until Saigon first produces a teacher or a medical technician." Moreover, the villagers themselves must participate. If the villagers put three or four months of their own sweat into a project, the Marines figure, they will take better care of it and fight any Viet Cong attempts to take over or destroy...
Rocket Research scientists are prepared to go even farther to pare down the orbital weight of a MONEX W rocket. They plan to use a soluble cement to bond powdered metal into such structures as special instrument panels that are used only in the early stages of the flight. When their purpose has been served, the structures will be tossed into the blender. The moist wastes will dissolve the cement, returning the metal to its powdered form and making it a suitable ingredient for MONEX...
Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum can remember his carefree writer days, when a striking cement workers' union "threw in the trowel," and when a Mafia squabble over prostitute money proved that "too many crooks spoil the brothel...
...legs on cement...
...dozen giant banks and industries collapsed together. Intra held 38% of the deposits in Lebanese-owned banks. It owned nine other banks, four of them in Lebanon. It controlled 35 companies, including Beirut's largest hotel and thriving Middle East Airlines, the Beirut port, the cement industry, a gambling casino and a metalworks; in all, it employed 43,000 persons who with their dependents comprise a tenth of the country's population. Abroad, Intra's twelve branches spread from New York to Nigeria, its holdings from a French shipyard to a 27-story office skyscraper on Manhattan...