Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vincent ("Vinnie") Richards, 50, onetime wonder boy of tennis who teamed up with Bill Tilden to win the national doubles championship at the age of 15 and later won the national professional singles championship four times, was named vice president of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. Richards joined Dunlop in 1930, when the company first entered the tennis-equipment field...
...confused with an electrically operated speed meter, which is actuated by rubber contacts stretched over a highway at intervals of 88 feet. When a vehicle crosses the contacts at a speed greater than that set on the meter, its speed is registered on the instrument...
...chemical industry. The Tuscola petrochemical plant, owned jointly with Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., is its biggest chemical investment to date. From natural gas, the plant each year will pour out 20% of the nation's supply of synthetic alcohol, used in hundreds of products ranging from synthetic rubber and explosives to photographic film and DDT; 200 million lbs. of ethylene; 50 million Ibs. of ethyl chloride, for tetraethyl lead in high-octane aviation gasoline; 140,000 tons of sulphuric acid. In addition, Tuscola will soon have a $7,000,000 ammonia plant and a $14.5 million plant...
...ambitious welfare program costing $33 million (TIME, Aug. 31). But there was still a surplus. So the young Sultan cast a philanthropic eye on Malaya, a neighboring, blood-related British protectorate, which was bravely mopping up Communist guerrillas and was hard up for money owing to falling tin and rubber prices...
Sturdy Stopper. Virginia's Highway Commission has bought 10,000 plastic traffic signs from General Tire & Rubber Co. for use on its roads. Lighter and tougher than steel, yet only one-eighth to one-tenth inch thick, the plastic signs withstand the attacks of man and nature better than metal ones...