Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...applied strong salt compresses to draw the fluid out. Very smart, said the U.S. surgeons in their critique. The swelling subsided within a week. After two months the metal plate was removed, but the bones were healing poorly, so the surgeons packed in bone chips as a sort of cement...
...corporations tabulated by First National City Bank, 56% reported earnings up from the previous quarter, and for all, nine-month profits were 12% higher than last year. The Wall Street Journal surveyed 26 industries, found earnings were higher than in last year's third quarter for all but cement companies, chain groceries and papermakers. Spectacular successes were noted by airlines (Pan Am and TWA both had record earnings). Oil companies, notably those with major overseas operations, showed brisk earnings; Sinclair alone had a 76% rise to $45 million for the first three quarters...
...visit was meant to cement such harmony. Toward that end, Selassie had long talks not only with Jack Ken nedy, but with Bobby and Teddy as well. He was even accorded a full-fledged Washington press conference. Unfortunately, he had to deal with questions just as inane as some of those Kennedy fields. Inquired one lady reporter: "How do leopard skins of Ethiopia Somalia?" compare in Selassie quality smiled with gamely, those said of there was no difference...
...winners-York, Lancaster, Canterbury, Colchester, Norwich and Warwick-set up blue-chip academic planning boards to get fast approval by older universities. Instead of spending years as apprentice colleges, the old way of breeding British universities, the new schools are opening as full-blown universities. Skirting wet cement and snarling bulldozers, a visitor at one raw campus last week felt "the kind of enthusiasm you find in an Israeli kibbutz. You want to pick up a shovel or roll up your sleeves and unpack books. It is all so unstuffy, informal and energetic that it seems downright un-English...
...Progressive Party and operates as an extension of the government. Last month Gimpex moved into potatoes, onions and garlic with imports from Poland and Czechoslovakia; it is filling lumber orders for East Germany and Russia. To Cuba it ships railroad ties and rice; in return, Castro sends cement, printing machinery and foodstuffs...