Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each of the 503,370 LeTourneau shares is worth about $35 in cash from the sale, plus the value of unsold assets in the part of the company LeTourneau retains. LeTourneau himself has no intention of retiring. He plans to go into new manufacturing ventures, which include a trackless, rubber-tired "Tournatrain," for use in deserts and jungles...
...most serious accident occured about ten years ago, when two single scullers, ignoring the "keep to your right" rule on the river, smacked straight into each other. One oarsman required 14 stitches, and since then, the shells have been equipped with knob-like rubber bumpers on the bows...
With one of the volunteer's arms bared and a rubber tube wrapped tight around it, a technician slipped a needle into a vein and drew out 5 cc of blood. The donor's name and address were noted and he was promised a prompt report by mail. Of the first day's 415 samples, 388 were negative; the rest were positive or doubtful. To each of these 27 subjects went a letter asking him to return for further testing or to see his own doctor and have him send the Health Department a report. After...
...Every Family." In his lifetime. Henry Ford was damned from time to time as a Communist (for his $5-a-day wage), an anarchist, an anti-Semite, a Fascist; he was praised as the greatest living American, whose diverse interests (e.g., planes, rubber growing, synthetics, early American furniture) made him seem a kind of machine-age Leonardo. Now the archives reveal for the first time what manner of man he really...
...Solutions. Together, Breech and HF II performed radical surgery. They shucked off all Old Henry Ford's peripheral enterprises, such as his Brazilian rubber plantations, his money-losing deal to make Harry Ferguson's tractors,* his experimental farms. They had another big problem: the inheritance taxes on the $208 million estates of Henry and Edsel. Luckily, Old Henry himself left $28 million in cash, and the family got the rest by loans from the company and sales of property. They kept control in the family by keeping the 172,645 shares of voting stock (now held in equal...