Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Originally most of the waste was dumped at sea. The materials were packed into 55-gal. drums marked with AEC's radioactivity insigne, a white cloud with four lightning bolts shooting out of it. The drums were lined with 2 to 10 in. of cement, sealed with more cement, and carried by ship to offshore dumping grounds set up by AEC. Two such grounds are off the Atlantic coast, two more are off the coast of California. All four are in water 6,000 ft. deep. Since 1946. about 21,000 drums have been tipped into the Pacific...
...Benkhedda flew to Morocco, where he was hailed by a crowd of 50,000 and received the 21-gun salute awarded to heads of state. With him, settling down for an indefinite stay in Morocco, was the top leadership of the F.L.N. Evident purpose of the F.L.N. migration: to cement relations with a major North African power...
...Council of State over which he will preside, at least in the beginning-and with the right to retain Rodriguez Echavarria as armed forces chief. All six other Council member-designates are either independents or men who turned against Trujillo. Amiama Tió, a small businessman, and Imbert, a cement plant manager who drove the assassination car, will each be represented...
...York convention last week (see THE NATION), the National Association of Manufacturers chose as its new president an embodiment of the great American success story-reserved, stern-featured Donald J. Hardenbrook, 65. A non-college man, Hardenbrook started out as a $6-a-week office boy with Atlas Portland Cement, inexorably worked his way up to board chairman of American Creosoting Corp. Though he is descended from Manhattan's original Dutch settlers and claims a great-great-great-great-grandfather who helped found the New York Stock Exchange in 1792, strapping Donald Hardenbrook owes his business eminence...
...rale already has 3% of its assets in Canada, controls both the Sogemines investment company (with interests in Brockville Chemicals, Inland Cement, Iroquois Glass) and the Miron building materials company. In Europe, La Générale owns 16% of Luxembourg's huge ARBED steel works (1960 sales: $700 million). It has also joined with the U.S.'s Olin Mathieson to produce oil derivatives, and with the U.S.'s Union Carbide to make polyethylene within the Common Market...