Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embassy, they found on guard rows of red-capped Policía Armada, the heavy-handed troopers Franco employs to keep order in the cities. Sure of official sanction, the students surged on. The jittery police lost their heads. Brandishing heavy rubber truncheons, they laid open heads, clubbed shoulders, thumped backs. Amazed, then aroused, the students fought back with bricks, branches torn from trees, even shoes snatched off their own feet. Bystanders joined in, seizing the chance to strike at the hated Policia Armada. For two hours the fight raged, subsiding on one street corner to flare up on another...
...meantime, this Saturday the team must prove its shutout of Dartmouth Jan. 9 in the Pentagonal League opener was no fluke. The Indians and the Crimson meet in the rubber match of a three-game series at the Winter Carnival...
...cognac, lunching Western newsmen, offering to provide Soviet orchestras for their hosts' enlightenment. Smart-suited Soviet buyers are shopping everywhere, touting a bottomless ^market (of 660 million Russians and Chinese) for the surplus commodities of Western farms and factories. The Communists want cotton, wool, fats, steel and rubber-and the payment they offer is attractive: gold, timber, even strategic materials...
TIREMAKERS expect 1954's production to equal or exceed last year's 100,500,000 units. A drop in auto output would hurt some companies which do a large original-equipment business, but not affect others (e.g., General Tire, Armstrong Rubber, Seiberling) which supply the growing replacement market. Prices will be about the same...
Married. Elizabeth Chambers Firestone, 31, oldest daughter of Rubber Tycoon Harvey S. Firestone Jr.; and Charles F. (for Fountain) Willis Jr., 35, aide to White House Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...