Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wealth is prodigious. He controls 15 companies-ranging from a cement combine to a paper and pulp plant-whose annual sales exceed $100 million, and his personal fortune is estimated to be at least $25 million. But Venezuela's courtly Eugenio Mendoza, 56, is more than his country's leading industrialist; he is also its leading philanthropist. Says he: "We businessmen always talk about the need to make dividends for our shareholders, but we must also create a dividend for the community...
Machinery & Construction Missouri Portland Cement 500 35 17,500 Nutone...
...demon knitter, began his career as a medical student but "whammed out be cause I wasn't much good." Then he manufactured rubber facial replacements for disfigured war victims. "To make sure they would stick," he says, "I sandpapered my tum and fixed an ear onto it with cement and wore it four months...
...never does. His material is gauged for longevity rather than flash. His patent for permanence is simply that he can do no wrong. His cheapskate, self-deceiving, inept, shrug-it-off, endearing and vainglorious public character has grown round him for decade after decade like layer after layer of cement, and he has long since become utterly indestructible. Many of his peer contemporaries-Eddie Cantor. Fred Allen, Ben Bernie-are either retired or dead; but Benny just keeps on standing there with that look, and warm, unraucous laughter ripples all over the room...
...Development Corporation of the Philippines, flew off to Washington to arrange $22 million in loans. Roman Catholic Ortigas is a successful businessman with a highly regarded talent for organization. Branching out from his own insurance and real estate business, he has gone into meat packing, sugar refining and cement, written a book called Planting Rice Is Never Fun. As head of the new corporation, 70% controlled by Philippine citizens, he will decide where to extend long-term loans to help Philippine mining, agriculture and industry...