Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fields south of Ltibeck, the double barbed wire resumes, and it is no slipshod affair. Cement pylons are sunk 5 ft. into the ground and stand slightly over 6 ft. above it. Each pylon is threaded with seven strands of wire. Along the border a tractor equipped with a posthole digger is busily planting holes every dozen feet. As I watched the work crews through my binoculars, I suddenly found myself staring down the barrel of an East German submachine gun across the barrier...
...this trend, some major airframe makers tried diversification-turning to everything from hydrofoil boats to garbage disposal plants. Famed old Glenn L. Martin Co. retired altogether from the airframe business, prospered by putting its chips on missiles and space, and lately has branched into such solid civilian products as cement. In time, most of the major planemakers went over to missiles and space. Today, General Dynamics has its Atlas, Boeing Airplane Co. its Dyna-Soar and Minuteman, Douglas its Skybolt, and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. its Mercury capsule. Lockheed Aircraft Corp., which is the prime contractor for the Discoverer, Midas...
Among the more interesting items: The Persian Gulf Shipping Co., the Bank of Development and Rural Cooperatives, the Royal Publishing Co., the Melli Insurance Co., the Gohestan Sugar Mill, the Fars and Khuzistan Cement plant, scores of hotels, restaurants and nightclubs, including the Kolbeh in Teheran, which remains one of the few spots in Iran still offering French strippers, Russian vodka and Caspian caviar, despite the austerity laws imposed earlier this year...
SOME of the children I taught walked five miles every morning to the squat, cement school-house on the Southern edge of Tanga. A strange collection of African, Arabic and English names belonged to those broad, smiling faces: Mbwana Hassani, Jumbe Wema, Joho Said, Lillian Grace Lukindo, Mary John, Apollonia Said...
...first aerospace-age missile and electronics company, turned losses into profits. Next his teacup told him that changeable cold-war winds made even Martin's position as the largest missilemaker precarious. So he set out to diversify, this week in one king-sized jump moved Martin into chemicals, cement, paints, furniture polish, powdered metals and adhesives. His method: merging with Chicago's highly diversified American-Marietta Co. (1960 sales: $368 million) to form a $1.2 billion giant to be called Martin-Marietta Corp...