Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phone. It was Rosenhouse on the line. A sympathetic censor had allowed his call to go through, and for the next four hours Rosenhouse dictated his story. "The same censor," said Rosenhouse, "began to help other correspondents, but he got careless. The police caught him, beat him with rubber hoses, shot him in the leg three times and fractured his skull. He is now recovering in the military hospital. When censorship ended, it was hard to believe. Suddenly newsmen could devote some time to reporting instead of waging their own war with the censors." Rosenhouse, a native of Chicago...
...Viet Nam is rich in rubber, tin, zinc, iron and coal; it has a notable surplus of rice, and a strategic 1,200-mile coastline. Viet Nam is the prize, the arena where the French and the Viet Minh have contended for the past eight years...
PACKARD will be out first with tubeless tires at no extra cost. Other automakers will follow. Lincoln will use tubeless tires next year, and Cadillac is testing three makes (Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich), hopes to pick...
Then starts the merriest operation in the offshore oil business. An engineer, sitting at a control cabinet with little handles on it, opens valves releasing streams of compressed air. One stream runs through tubing to each of the caissons and inflates a heavy-walled rubber "inner tube," locking the caisson tightly to a steel ring. Then other inner tubes inflate, expand, and drive the caisson into the mud. Eventually the caissons reach firm footing deep in the mud. Then, inch by inch, the barge climbs up its own caissons like a boy shinning up a tree...
MIDGET Crosley cars, which went out of production in 1952, will soon be produced in Israel for the European market. General Tire & Rubber Co., which bought control of Crosley, has made a deal to give Crosley's equipment to Israel's Abena Investment & Development Co. in exchange for a half-interest in the Israeli company. Machinery will be moved from Marion, Ind. to Tel Aviv. Abena will use cheap (about $3 a day) labor to turn...