Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most rewarding work came in October and November when we had a chance to pour concrete. We shoveled sand and gravel and concrete into metal bowls which students carried on their heads and threw into the cement mixer. Others picked up wheelbarrows full of cement, raced down narrow boardways and dumped them into the stone bed of the foundation. It was hard work and the sun was getting hotter, but when the day was over we could see the floor of the building that we had made...
What would the teen-age marrieds advise their own children to do? Said a 19-year-old motorcycle enthusiast who had to sidetrack a law career and go to work in a cement plant when he found his wife-to-be was pregnant: "I don't think it's a good idea for young people to get married; there are too many things to do then. But it's so hard for a teen-ager to say, This is my judgment,' when in your own experience you don't know what you've done...
...Poon also plans to recreate Grauman's Chinese Theater's wet cement act by recording Miss Wood's handprint for future Harvard students. "She might even mouth the words to a song from West Side Story," Lewis said hopefully...
...towing on water or dropped safely from airplanes. The bricks are converted back into liquid gasoline by being passed through a wringer. The Air Force is evaluating disks coated with adhesive-filled microcapsules that would break when pressed against the exterior of a spacecraft. The released adhesive would firmly cement the disk to the craft, providing an anchor for an astronaut walking or working in space. Similar encapsulated adhesives would simplify the joining of parts under water...
...South Vietnam has experienced despite the war. When asked to elaborate, he spoke of the significant build-up of urban light industries. Vietnam's three spinning mills have increased from 60,000 spindles in 1960 to 100,000 today. Thai also cited the development of paper factories, chemical and cement complexes, and a coal mine which has been started in the middle of a Communist-dominated area. These industries are examples of what Thai calls "more active participation of the people in economic development." Two of the three spinning mills are owned by businessmen of Chinese origin; the paper factories...