Word: cements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vesco first set out to cement his control by buying out Cornfeld, who had been deposed as chairman but still held a large block of IOS stock. In early 1971, Vesco secretly bought the block for $5.5 million-$3,500,000 more than the market price-through a dummy Panamanian corporation called Linkink. Later, Vesco had International Controls buy Linkink. The SEC complaint states that Vesco chose this circuitous route because he wanted to hide his operations as thoroughly as possible. If the charge is true, Vesco bought Cornfeld's stock at an inflated price by using stock...
CONSTRUCTION BEGAN WITH the sinking of mammoth caissons, filled with compressed air so workers could breathe and water couldn't get in, inside, workers dredged up the river bottom till they came to solid rock. Then the caissons were filled with cement and the bridge's twin granite towers piled upon them...
...Hall in the Radcliffe Quad to make room for a twin of Mather House. This suggestion does incorporate the two desires for economy in construction and building only on property already owned. But unfortunately it ignores the aesthetic integrity of the Quad, which would be violated by such a cement monstrosity. No one bid the old field house at Radcliffe a tearful farewell when it came down for Currier House, but Currier was designed tastefully of brick and it was outside the Quad anyway. True, Bertram Hall is old and decrepit, and renovation is overdue. Modernization similar to the treatment...
AFTER THREE YEARS of dodging dump trucks, cranes, and cement minors, after being constantly forced into Quincy Street on the way to William James or the Bio labs. Harvard students can be happy that Gund Hall is finally finished. The dedication festivities tonight provide in occasion for members of the architectural jet set, GSD faculty, and old alumni to engage in cocktail conversation about the beauties of the Building, Very late Friday night the Janitors will sweep away the last remains of the ceremonies and the GSD students can finally settle down to working in Gund Hall...
...capital, OYAK investments have spread throughout the Turkish economy. The fund owns controlling interests in Turkish Automotive Industry, a company that assembles International Harvester trucks and tractors; MAT, a truck and tractor sales firm; the OYAK Insurance Co.; Tukas, a food canning firm; and a $3,000,000 cement plant. OYAK also holds 20% of the $50 million Petkim Petrochemical plant, scheduled to begin operations within three years, 8% of state-owned Turkish Petroleum and 7% of a $5.6 million tire factory owned mostly by Goodyear. Civilians operate the companies, but many key posts are held by former officers, often...