Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cement. While Nehru's India preached neutralism, Pakistan early joined every alliance in sight. It was an original member of CENTO, it belongs to SEATO, and would have joined NATO if it could have. Pakistan signed a bilateral defense treaty with the U.S. in 1954 and supplied the U.S. with the Peshawar airfield as a convenient base for U-2 spy planes flying over Russia...
...only people who will stand by you in Asia are the people of Pakistan ? provided you are prepared to stand by them." He boated up the Potomac to Mount Vernon with the Kennedys, flew to Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch to write his name in fresh Friendship Walk cement. Vice President Johnson had met Ayub in Pakistan earlier that year and, in a rosy, fraternal glow, saw to it that a camel driver who reached for his outstretched hand got a free junket...
...melt the dead lock. The industry claimed that it could not possibly boost its offer of a 40.6? hourly wage increase for a 35-month contract without raising prices, stirring Johnson's ire and losing sales to foreign steelmakers and competitive materials such as aluminum, plastics and cement. The steelworkers' Abel, who got elected earlier this year on a promise of plumper contracts, was equally adamant in refusing to scale down his demand...
There's a cement octopus sits in Sacramento, I think...
Though the President was clearly delighted that the crucial wage rise in steel equalled 3.2% (see THE NATION), he could not take much satisfaction in other recent settlements. Over the past twelve months, pay increases of between 3.5% and 4% have been won in such major industries as aluminum, cement and glass. Container workers won a 3.5% increase, auto workers a 4.8% boost, California construction workers a 6.1% raise for each of the next three years. Last week's maritime-strike settlement, while adhering to the 3.2% formula for its first year, will actually hike the cost of employing...