Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moslem and 90% illiterate-earn a meager $10 a year on the average, mainly by herding goats, sheep and camels over the parched grasslands of the interior. The country has no deep-water ports, no railroad, in a land half again the size of California. As if to cement its image of Biblical backwardness, Somalia brags of its exotic exports-frankincense and myrrh...
...bulge, window frames buckled and bricks began to peel off. So great was the danger that a barrier had to be erected around the whole building to protect passers-by from getting clobbered by falling bricks. When investigating engineers tore away a wall, they discovered gaping holes in the cement undersurface as well as other alarming examples of shoddy workmanship. The VA kept patching up the structure, finally decided to strip off every one of the hospital's 1,575,000 bricks, remove all 5,000 windows and window frames and replace them with new windows and a sheath...
...been selling off his least profitable operations and building a nest egg that now amounts to $150 million. On the other hand, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge has the biggest industrial process-control operation in the U.S., supplies devices to such firms as U.S. Steel (to control oxygen furnaces) and Riverside Cement (to regulate cement blending). But TRW did not have capital enough to develop the business and make it profitable. With Martin putting up the cash and owning 90% of the new corporation, Bunker will be chairman and chief executive officer of the company; Dr. Simon Ramo, vice chairman...
...schedule overtime rather than train someone new, because experienced hands give them better work and save them the expense of added fringe benefits for a new employee. The industries with some of the heaviest overtime are autos, where workers spend 5.4 extra hours a week in the plant, cement (6.6 hr.), grain mill products (7.3 hr.), and paper (5.6 hr.). Thus, even with overtime, few workers work more than a 46-hour week...
...spearheaded his country's revolt against the French, gave it one of the Middle East's few stable regimes, but was forced to resign when opposition politicians charged (but could not prove) that his family was profiting from government deals in everything from cement to gold; of cancer; in Beirut...