Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Villagers built 1,600 new schoolrooms during the first half of 1966, well ahead of schedule. Peasants supplied labor, while lumber and cement came from AID and the Vietnamese government. Manning 6,400 hamlet schools are 7,200 teachers, including 3,400 who completed training in 1966. Hamlet schools can now provide elementary education for 540,000 youngsters. - Fighting disease are 42 free-world medical teams, including Cuban refugee doctors and medical personnel from 13 other nations; 153 American doctors took furloughs from their private practices for two-month voluntary stints with Project Viet Nam; West Germany has sent...
Part of the affected territory is uninhabited wasteland of little value, but much of it is valuable timberland where losses will amount to millions of dollars. For Alaskans, money and inconvenience are not the only toll: they worry about the wildlife that is endangered. The West Fork, Cement Creek and Matson Creek fires are burning through some of the finest caribou grazing lands in the state. The herds feed on forest-floor vegetation called "caribou moss," which takes between 100 and 150 years to grow...
...Industries, two months ago began assembling Jeeps near the Nordeste city of Recife, where Kelvinator is already building refrigerators. Firestone plans an $11 million tire plant and Italy's Pirelli is building a wire and conductor factory. Other European groups are setting up ventures in canning, batteries and cement forms. Last week the U.S.-backed Inter-American Development Bank chipped in $29.5 million to help finance a $79 million expansion of the Paulo Afonso hydroelectric plant on the San Francisco River in the Nordeste...
...snorkel through the gauzy wall of a capillary into a shocking-pink lung where the lightest breath hurls the homunculi about like twigs in a tornado. A bit later, the "foreign body" of Actress Welch is attacked with understandable enthusiasm by antibodies that look like jellyfish made of household cement...
...Even so, official figures do not yet reflect some of the biggest recent price hikes, notably the early August 2.3% boost in sheet-steel prices, which promises to push up the price tags on everything from nails to new autos this fall. And there is much more to come. Cement makers have boosted prices by 10? to 20? per bbl. in several areas, effective in November or January. On Sept. 1, Detroit's unionized barbers will increase men's hair cuts from $2.25 to $2.50. Incensed by that "annual holdup," the Detroit News only half-jokingly urged...