Word: tile
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...largest makers of integrated sugar mills, has orders from as far away as Nepal and Pakistan. These sugar mills produce a good deal more than sugar-one fact that gives some hope for ending the glut. Bagasse, the residue after cane is squeezed, can be converted into hardboard and tile. Sugar cane also provides a base for paper, plastics, synthetic rubber, toothpaste, fingernail polish, floor wax, toys, even explosives...
...they had been in readiness for a week, the paracommandos flew in 14 U.S.-piloted C-130s to Katanga's giant Ka-mina Military Base and thence toward their target. Below the gaping jump-hatches, the Congo wound broad and tawny through black-green bush; the tin and tile roofs of Stanleyville shone pink in the early light. "Stan," as it is known to both black and white, is the most African town of the Congo. The "Inner Station" of Conrad's Heart...
Last week the King was wheeling and dealing in style. It began one morning in the ornate state hall of Singha Durbar, where Nepalese and Chinese officials signed an agreement by which Peking will build two warehouses and a brick-and-tile factory for Nepal. That afternoon, wearing his habitual dark glasses, Mahendra and his pretty, petite Queen Ratna attended the formal inauguration of a U.S.-financed, 26-mile aerial cableway that will bring freight and food from the Indian border across the Mahabharat Mountains to the capital city of Katmandu...
...Tennessee-born onetime beaverboard salesman softens over children, spends Sundays entertaining his six grandchildren at his Buffalo penthouse. He also has solid business reasons for liking kids: more babies mean more homes, more schools and greater demand for his 350 products, which range from cement to ceramic tile. And that means more plants. Having just returned from California, where he inspected Gypsum's first plant in the West, Baker last week flew to Jackson, Tenn., to celebrate the opening of Gypsum's 72nd plant, which will provide jobs for hundreds of young Tennesseans...
...homes in 1963, paying an average of $14,000 each. By 1970, 2,000,000 new homes a year are expected to be sold, at an average cost of $16,800. Result: producers of everything from the lowly pine two-by-four to the finest-quality ceramic tile are involved in a fierce fight to win a bigger part of this growing market. The battle was evident last week at the opening of the New York World's Fair, where dozens of building-materials makers have set up displays to woo the public, from a house of Formica inside...