Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MONSANTO CHEMICAL is going into business with German chemists to make a new plastic substitute for foam rubber. With Germany's Farbenfabriken Bayer A.G., Monsanto will build a plant in the U.S., turn out the new chemicals (isocyanates) to make foam plastics for mattresses and upholstery...
...make up only five percent of the common stock total--one-fourth of which is in public utilities, one-fifth in oil, and one-tenth in insurance. Railroads are in fourth place behind these three leaders, and then come chemical, bank, retail trade, paper, electrical equipment, food and beverage, rubber, mining and smelting, farm equipment, and automobile stocks, in that order...
...family planed in from Fort Benning to complete the family circle, and Ike mixed his special half-holiday formula of work and play: a few hours of official business each morning and a daily round of golf, larded with interludes of play with the grandchildren and a rubber or two of bridge each evening...
...borrowed $35 million more (1920) to save the company from bankruptcy, soon put G.M. back on its feet. Assailed as a "merchant of death" during the early '30s, Pierre began to plow wartime profits into peacetime research, developed many profitable new chemical products (e.g., Cellophane, nylon, synthetic rubber). Resigning as chairman of the board of directors at 70, he devoted himself to philanthropy and gardening...
...almost every job. Star of the show was a new 200 h.p. diesel crawler tractor with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn with power on both tracks (price: $30,000). Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load 48 tons of dirt in 60 seconds, a job that would take a man with a shovel ten days...