Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the conference communiqué did not specifically say so, this means efforts to increase trade with the Soviet bloc. Britons can see no reason why they should not sell rubber, trawlers or antibiotics to the East, when the Communist countries are already buying them from other nations (rubber from Indonesia, trawlers from Denmark and antibiotics from France). Commented one export manager bitterly: "Last year we played ball with the United Nations and lost $180 million in business with China and Russia. So what happened? Our European friends got the business, and we got the blame." Said a Foreign Office...
...thin patch of pines at Kobe Sound, Fla., 25 miles north of Palm Beach, passers-by gaped last week at two odd-looking "bubble houses," the first built from designs by Connecticut Architect Eliot Noyes (TIME, June 22). Built around large nylon and rubber bubbles, reinforced with wire and then sprayed with two coats of concrete (called shot crete), the houses can withstand winds of 125 m.p.h., are sealed against the hordes of insects found in warm climates. Inside, partitions reach up just to the curve of the ceiling; only the bathroom is enclosed, with Fiberglas. The four-room...
...sprawling plant in Bridgeport, Conn, last week. Columbia Records Inc. made phonograph records in two surprisingly different ways. On the third floor, 250 men in grimy work clothes labored amid the ear-shattering hammer of hydraulic presses and the stench of burned rubber. On the floor below, four neatly dressed men stood by 16 softly purring machines. The four seemingly did nothing but watch the machines work. Yet in an eight-hour shift, each turned out about five times as many records as the sweating men on the floor above...
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. last week reported that its sales for 1953 had pushed over the billion dollar level for the first time, thus making it the 31st U.S. company to pass the magic mark and become a member of the "Billion Dollar Club." Firestone's record: $1,029,000,000 worth of rubber goods and plastics sold ($64,000,000 better than 1952), for a net profit of $46,748,971, or $11.77 a share...
Chemical Cushion. A new cushioning material made from a polyester resin (the basis of Dacron) was put on the market by Hudson Foam Plastics Co., Yonkers, N.Y. Mattresses of foam polyester will have to be only about 1½ in. thick, v. 4 in. for foam rubber...