Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along a tunnel 4,850 ft. beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, explosions rumbled like artillery fire. Sweet-smelling dynamite and ammonium nitrate fumes poured into the tunnel from a cavern where some 30 to 40 tons of ore had just been blasted loose. In an immaculate, cement-lined chamber nearby, a hoist operator scanned two closed-circuit TV screens that monitor the ore buckets, make sure they are dumping properly into large collection bins. Above ground, at the end of the production process, refinery workers were pouring Brick No. 37,035-a 30-lb. hunk of solid gold...
...tried to fake my way by dropping words like "hammer," "cement" and "wrench." But somehow, my clever plan failed, and I feared and trembled on Selection Eve. But I look like I'm a very sincere Friend of Man, and it's hard to get selected out of the Peace Corps if you're sincere...
...sand dunes in 66 days, the companies built the airstrip with a material that had been used only experimentally in the U.S. before it came to Viet Nam: a thin, interlocking and sandwiched aluminum plate called AM2. The airstrip came out as smooth and as strong as a cement field-which would have taken eight months to construct...
...such industries as shipbuilding, aircraft and aerospace, metals, machinery and tools. In many cities, there is also a growing scarcity of teachers, nurses, social-welfare workers and even typists. Labor pirating by firms has broken out in the Midwest as a result of shortages of ironworkers, carpenters and cement masons. Contractors in Springfield, 111., are so short of bricklayers that they have enticed 15 Irish craftsmen to immigrate to the U.S., are clamoring for 40 more. Older people find it easier to get jobs because of the pinch: Des Moines Contractor Don B. Betts recently hired an 83-year...
...first common banking venture, but one of the very few joint ventures of any kind brought to fruition in Asian history. Burma's U Nyun, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, sensed a historic moment as he troweled cement onto the cornerstone of what will become a ten-story headquarters building. "When historians look back from the future on this structure-to-be," he said, "they will say that it was the new financial temple of Asia." Eugene Black, former World Bank president and now a special adviser to Lyndon Johnson...