Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the announcement, the whole labor picture changed. G.M. promptly signed with 3,000 rubber workers in Dayton at the magical new 15? figure. At the least, it meant that Walter Reuther would be hard put to it to avoid accepting about the same terms at G.M., at Chrysler, and at Ford. At most it meant that the U.S. could look forward to a season of real labor peace...
...Empire. Henry Ford did it. He was the genius of mass production. He created social problems which the U.S. is still trying to solve. For himself he built an industrial empire of coal mines, rubber plantations, iron mines, timberland, sawmills, hydroelectric works, companies in a dozen other nations. The empire's capital was the plant on the River Rouge where the stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated Henry Ford ruled the roost. At one time it was estimated that he was worth $2 billion. The bankers tried to horn in on the empire, but he repulsed them. He had a low opinion...
...though Philip Coolidge, as the dyspeptic professor, offers some deft deadpan satire. But Barefoot Boy, like its predecessors, trades mostly on zip, pace, and the sheer commodity value of youth itself. It gets a fair measure of these; but the Abbott trademark is beginning to seem perilously like a rubber stamp. And Barefoot Boy is very much poorer than its predecessors in the matter of music, and not quite so peppy in its dancing...
...swimming. A trained nurse teaches expectant mothers what to expect, talks them out of old wives' tales. After a wife has her baby, she graduates into classes on infant and child care, given by experts. In evening classes, expectant fathers can learn to bathe, powder and diaper rubber dolls...
...than the rural. Biggest change-and growth-is in Houston, smack in the middle of the chemical wave that has swamped the whole Gulf Coast. Before the war, greater Houston was already the crowded center of oilfields and refineries. War brought it 20% of the nation's synthetic-rubber plants and 145 major chemical plants. Postwar expansion completed the jam, with scores of new installations. Now, the skeletons of new skyscrapers fill the skyline...