Word: foams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foam Rubber. On the festive opening night (Danish national anthem, speeches, cheers) the featured work was La Sylphide, choreographed by famed August Bournonville in 1836 and passed down virtually unchanged from lip to toe. It begins with a round of mimed action during which some observers usually expect the dancers to burst into recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her supernatural character implicit in the tiny wings at her waist, falls in love with the Scotch farm boy (Henning Kronstam); but when the family arrives, she dashes over to the fireplace and literally whisks...
...There are magic veils, palm reading and plots until the sylph's little wings drop off and, faltering as if blind, she dies. When, amid all this fabulizing, they get a chance to dance, the Danes are light on their toes-as if the stage were covered with foam rubber-and their movements are graceful rather than virtuoso. Everything they do onstage helps the drama, and so there are no star dancers, nor is there much pause for applause. Nevertheless there were gasps of approval at the powerful male leaps...
...their own behalf while still in uniform. Though they have never really joined organized labor-four separate unions have flopped, and they have never managed a successful strike-each team has its player representative. If trivial requests have failed (one Philadelphia muscleman thought dugout benches needed foam-rubber cushions), earnest efforts to improve conditions have built the pension system and boosted minimum salaries...
...Carothers' findings, developed other synthetic fibers. When Du Pont used Carothers' research to produce Dacron and other synthetic materials, the U.S. company found that it had to buy manufacturing rights from European concerns. Du Pont's latest dividend from Carothers' research is rubberlike urethane foam, used in a wide variety of end products from furniture to falsies. Urethane production has increased tenfold in the past year, should reach the 100 million-lb. mark...
...booming rubber industry, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Chairman P. W. Litchfield announced the biggest expansion program in his company's history: $114 million to increase production both at home and abroad. In the U.S. new plants and machines will boost production of tires, foam rubber, aircraft products, flooring and chemicals, while overseas new Goodyear tire plants will spring up in Scotland, Colombia, Venezuela and the Philippines. Said Litchfield, noting Goodyear's record 1955 sales of $1.3 billion and $59 million profit: "Our plants, both in this country and abroad, have all been operating at full capacity during the past...