Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 120 teen-agers were hard at work on 550 hilly acres in upstate New York. Boys were digging potatoes, tending 75 dairy cows, painting, sandblasting a new oil storage tank, manufacturing cement blocks for new buildings, remodeling an old lodge into a modern residence hall. Girls were canning home-grown corn, washing & ironing, cooking and serving meals, doing secretarial work. They were the current citizens of the 54-year-old George "Junior Republic" at Freeville, N.Y., and though most of them were trying to make a second start in their young lives, all of them were there...
...Japanese colonial masters had harnessed Formosa's rivers to produce light and power. They opened coal mines, built industrial plants (sugar, cement, aluminum, etc.), developed fertilizers and irrigation so that the farmer could produce more rice. Today the island's industrial output is only 60% of prewar. Cement, necessary for reconstruction of cities gutted and leveled by U.S. warplanes, brings outrageous prices on the black market; manufacturers refuse to produce because the government has pegged prices below production costs. Other industries are shut down because replacement parts are not available. Formosa's railroads are still on time...
...planners were unmoved. While Cuauhtémoc and the 34 heroes sat forlornly at the curbs, the cement mixers ground on. Mexicans began to call their beloved Paseo the "hardened artery...
...browed Joseph C. O'Mahoney stood up on the Senate floor last week and exclaimed: "It is clear to me that someone has to straighten it out . . . [with] plain language." The "it" was the confusion over prices caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's outlawing of the cement industry's basing point system (TIME...
...return, the company agreed to build a $4,800,000 factory capable of producing 600,000 barrels of cement a year. To raise the capital, Sir William got the World Commerce Corp. to underwrite $1.400,000, had no trouble at all in selling $2,000,000 worth of stock to enthusiastic Jamaicans. Last week the new company, awaiting $1,000,000 worth of machinery from England, was already clearing its 72-acre site on Kingston Harbor...