Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British cars, slashed the price of the Austin automobile from $1,595 to $1,275, trimmed all other makes 20%. Rolls-Royce dealers trimmed that $20,000 job to $15,000. Dunhill's also jumped aboard, cut British pipes and cigarette cases 20%. The prices of British wool, rubber, cocoa and other commodities from sterling areas slumped on New York exchanges...
Touring a rubber factory (nonunion) he laid out his labor line. The Taft-Hartley Act was designed to cut down the power of labor bosses, he explained, just as the Sherman Act had been designed to cut down the power of covetous industrialists. Carbon-begrimed workers, some of them Amishmen with stony faces and beards, listened carefully and thoughtfully applauded...
...decision did not mean that the U.S. economy was yet in the clear. The auto workers, electrical workers and rubber workers, to say nothing of John Lewis' coal miners, had been sitting back waiting to see what the board's findings would be. Now that they saw them, they would also have to make up their minds which way to jump. But the nation, only last week facing a strangling strike of 500,000 men in steel, momentarily could breathe a little more easily. It had before it, in the board's report, a comprehensive formula...
Like the rest of the C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers, the Norwalk, Conn, local was supposed to fight for a robust wage boost (25? an hour), pensions and other benefits. But when it started negotiating with the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., the union made a disturbing discovery: the firm, already in bankruptcy and operating in receivership, was so close to failure it might close up entirely if it had to stretch its payroll. At a special meeting last week, the Norwalk rubber workers voted, 124 to 45, to drop their demands and to take wage cuts averaging...
...Beta Gauge, which measures the thickness of a material by spraying it with beta particles (electrons) from a radioactive isotope and gauging their penetration, was first installed last May in Continental Paper Co.'s plant at Ridgefield Park, N.J. It worked so uncannily well that rubber, paper mills and other industries all began clamoring for it. To meet the demand, Tracerlab has tripled its space by moving into a nearby six-story building paid for out of $1,196,000 of new capital raised last spring with a stock issue. It expects to step up gauge production from...