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Word: rubberizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British government last week lifted all controls on the export of rubber to the Soviet bloc. Explained British officials: Russia can get all the rubber it needs anyway from other sources, such as Indonesia, is not even buying all it might under the control quota (limited to Russia's estimated civilian needs), and the new gesture would help Malaya's sagging rubber trade. Sale of rubber is still banned to Communist China, Hong Kong, Macao and Tibet. But there will be nothing to prevent Malayan rubber from finding its way from, say, Vladivostok via a Manchurian tire factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Primrose Path | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Backing up the optimism, cheery first-quarter earnings reports continued to pour out, chiefly as a result of the end of the excess-profits tax. Such rubber-industry giants as Goodrich and U.S. Rubber both announced higher profits than in 1953. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) brought in earnings of $146 million, up $8,000,000 from last year; Westinghouse zoomed from $16.8 million to $26.3 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: No Crutch Needed | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Silent Speaker. Headphones for small-fry television fans have been developed by the Hoffman Radio Corp. Tricked out with rubber earpieces and a brightly colored plastic "antenna," the phones can be attached to the family television set so that parents can cut off the loudspeaker, have quiet while the children watch TV. Price: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...William S. Richardson, 60, took over the presidency of the B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, the country's fourth largest rubber company. A brisk, incisive executive who never seems to slow down, Richardson emigrated from England to the U.S. when he was twelve. He joined the Goodrich organization in 1926, moved up to become general sales manager and then president of the B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. in Cleveland. As president, he succeeds John L. Collyer, a pioneer in synthetic rubber and spokesman for the industry on the War Production Board. Collyer will remain as chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Corp.'s Board Chairman Paul Hoffman, who arranged for trial spins in Studebakers, orated on their good qualities. Last week Secretary Weeks finally gave in and signed up for the works: a black, four-door Land Cruiser with power steering, automatic transmission, radio, white-wall tires, and foam-rubber upholstery covered with blue nylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Life in the Old Salesman | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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