Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which Way Is Ireland?" Lindbergh carries five sandwiches in a brown paper bag, a canteen of water, a rubber raft, two small flashlights, a knife, and not much more except an iron will. For the first hours, that will is lightly tested, an occasional nodding daydream, a slight arm or leg cramp. Now & then he takes a swallow of water and keeps alert by checking his instruments and charts. But after nightfall, with The Spirit of St. Louis a dot over the Atlantic, fog closes in. Lindbergh looks for holes, climbs to 10,000 ft., goes down...
...Crisis in Coal": as an old, 50-year retired coal miner . . . I want to comment ... In preparation for World War II we in the bituminous coal industry-which was and is the greatest source of power to win the war, did not, as did the steel, aluminum, rubber industries, etc., go to the Federal Government to develop and build their plants . . . No, we took our own capital or by private borrowing developed our properties so that we supplied all the coal, with no shortages, that our country needed . . . But the main and vital thing your article forgot was this...
After World War II, with his idea on the go like a Susquehanna flood, Stotz asked U.S. Rubber Co. if it would make a rubber-cleated shoe for his Little Leaguers. The company not only agreed to turn out the shoe (the Little League now gives approval to any manufacturer meeting its specifications), but also to underwrite most of the Little League's central expenses as "enlightened public relations." This year, U.S. Rubber donated about $150,000 toward operating the league's 25-staffer headquarters in Williamsport and footing World Series players' traveling expenses. Other league activities...
...press would have liked to withhold judgment until it saw a more dignified number, but got caught up in the enthusiasm. "Rabovsky," wrote the Times critic, "had a ballon [ballet talk for the ability to remain in the air during jumps] that would have ensured any rubber ball a five years' guarantee." Said the Manchester Guardian: "They danced with a brilliance and a vitality [that] can be equaled by no dancer in the Western world...
...current rubber's five matches, four had been draws. Thus everything rested on the fifth. Twenty-four hours before it began, a wave of hope far wilder than ever gripped a partisan World Series crowd in the U.S. swept Britain. Queues lengthened outside London's Kennington Oval. Intoned the London Times: "The cricket community at the opposite ends of the world stands with bated breath...