Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rico Industrial Development Corp., set up in 1942 under the wartime governorship of Rexford Guy Tugwell. PRIDC, which has spent about $27 million to establish new industries (the new island budget allots $1,700,000 for the corporation), started the ball rolling by setting up five factories to make cement, glass, paper board, shoe-leather products, clay products. Later, it began a hard driving campaign to sell private companies on Puerto Rico as a place for business...
...protein diet is stored in an internal sac until the baby mud dauber has finished its food store. Then the larva develops an anus and excretes the entire sac into a back compartment of its bedchamber. It seals off the narrow connecting passage with a blob of quick-hardening cement, secreted especially for the purpose, so that it can spend the winter hygienically in the clean, dry front chamber...
Though the housing boom was past its peak, the building industry showed some outstanding performers. Johns-Manville Corp. boosted its net 24.9% (from $2.3 million to $2.8), Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. 23.4% (from $3.1 million to $3.8), and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 17%. Small Pennsylvania-Dixie Cement Corp. showed a 171% rise...
House cleaning one morning, Mrs. Arthur Martin of Syracuse, N.Y. dusted the plaster statue of St. Anne a little too hastily: it toppled from the window ledge into the cement driveway below and broke into pieces. It was swept up and dropped in an ashcan and there the eldest of the Martins' four children, a lively, questing, eleven-year-old named Shirley Anne, found...
...Moderates" like Morrison clashed with Bevan's fast-cycling views. The upshot was a compromise. Nationalization was only extended to six more industries-water supply, meat wholesaling and cold storage, all "suitable" mineral production, industrial insurance, sugar, cement. Actually, three of these are already partially under state control; all can be controlled-Labor hopes-without complex reorganization...