Word: foams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LOWENSTEIN & Sons, among the six biggest U.S. textile companies, took over stock control of Wamsutta Mills, thereby diversified from cotton dress goods, shirtings, etc. into sheets, foam-rubber pillows, electric blankets. Lowenstein paid $9.50 each for 208,500 of Wamsutta's 396,000 shares outstanding (v. $9.25 over the counter) and offered to buy more at the same price until Sept...
From these modest beginnings Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. has grown into a mammoth holding company with 165 subsidiaries, 66,000 stockholders and 93,000 employees. Its 61 factories (23 outside the United Kingdom) turn out golf balls, tennis balls, foam rubber, tires, tubes, 'raincoats; its Malayan rubber plantations (92,800 acres) are the biggest private landholdings in the British Commonwealth. With 1953 sales of $680 million (and a net of $14 million), Dunlop completely dominates the Commonwealth market for rubber goods. Dunlop, in fact, is often called a microcosm of the Empire...
...lines. A company may start making new products closely related to the old (e.g., Kelvinator added washing machines to its appliance line), or it may step boldly into some completely new field (e.g., Stanley Warner Corp. took over International Latex, thus moving from theaters into girdles, baby pants and foam pillows...
...Mittens of foam rubber, fitted over obstetrical forceps, have cut down both the number and severity of injuries to babies' skulls during delivery, Dr. Emanuel Greenberg of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital reported. He now recommends the soft mittens for a variety of surgical instruments whose steel edges may damage parts of a patient's anatomy...
Fire trucks with foam crews screamed to the crippled plane. Said big Joe Donnelly, who had been construction superintendent on the 707 for two years: "Well, that's that." Then he shook himself and added definitely: "She's still a good airplane...