Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marine have come in with overseas sales offices. On Grand Bahama, a $1,500,000 bunkering terminal pumps more than 1,000,000 bbl. of marine fuel a month into vessels from all over the world, while close by a subsidiary of U.S. Steel is building a $50 million cement plant. Even the cold war is pumping life into the sultry economy. The U.S. Air Force has four huge missile tracking bases in the Bahamas, plus more than 70 smaller stations dotted along the island chain. On Andros, the biggest Bahama of them all, the U.S. and Great Britain...
...proposals to curtail overtime will be one of the key issues that Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers will take up at the bargaining table this year. The steel industry's labor-management human relations committee is already grappling with the question, and the Rubber Workers, the Cement Masons, the Machinists and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers are among the many other unions strongly opposed to any more than a bare amount of overtime...
Keep It Flying. The frenzy of socialization has spawned 15 government-operated enterprises; only one, the cement trust, is earning a clear profit. Air Ceylon consists of a single DC-3, employs dozens of executives to keep it flying. The national salt corporation was so mismanaged that although the island is washed by the salt-rich Indian Ocean, it has had to import salt from abroad. Even Ceylon's Communists are complaining. While carefully exempting Mrs. Bandaranaike from criticism ("the only man in the Cabinet"), Cambridge-educated, pro-Soviet Red Leader Pieter Keuneman lamented: "This government is not going...
...settlers come from Mexico's , drought-stricken midsection-mostly from La Laguna, which once produced half of Mexico's cotton but is now a disaster area (TIME, March 15). Each will be moved by the government, supplied with food for a year, given materials for building a cement-block house, 40 acres of fertile land, plus-on a communal basis-five acres of permanently irrigated land and 56 acres of forest and grazing land. Each town will have a school and a health center with a fulltime doctor and two nurses. The government estimates the cost...
...banker and financier who prizes the title so highly that he wears in his lapel a small coyote made of diamonds. With a personal fortune of well over $15 million, Trouyet (pronounced true-jay) is a director of 42 companies and chairman of 19 of them-in telephones, steel, cement, plywood, textiles, hotels, beer and banking...