Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry, which naturally wants to get the plants as cheaply as possible, points out that the plants have had ten years of depreciation, that the RFC itself carries them at book value of only $172.6 million. Furthermore, for three months the industry has been breaking into a rash of sensational claims for new synthetic processes which would, supposedly, make the existing plants obsolete. Goodrich announced a process that could make rubber 50 times as fast as existing plants. Goodyear announced it was perfecting a new synthetic which might last the life of an automobile. Eight smaller tiremakers, operating...
Goalie Blair Torrey played his usual brilliant game for the Tigers, but a constant barrage of Crimson shots and a first period rash of Princeton penalties were too much...
Hollywood's three-dimension fever was still running high last week. But amidst all the 3-D gags ("We'll have to hire opticians instead of lawyers"), epithets ("third dementia"), and a rash of planned 3-D productions (15 feature movies in 1953), a few industry veterans began wondering aloud whether sudden salvation is really at hand. Is 3-D certain to save the sagging box office? Notable reservations and misgivings about 3-D's future...
Navy gained three first places--including the 400-yard freestyle relay--and a rash of seconds. Middie Gerry Nay scored a surprise victory in the 200-yard breast-stroke, shearing almost one second off a Naval Academy record. His time was 2:27.4. Ralph Zani and Ken Emerson placed second and third...
...blood-spoor of a dying whale was near, and the sharks were half-crazy with hunger and excitement. Cousteau scared the beast away by banging him on the nose with his underwater camera. A far greater nuisance, he says, is fire coral, which on contact produces a severe burning rash...