Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer monsoon broke over leafy Luang Prabang in a deluge. Huddled in steaming rubber capes, the French Union troops waited for the expected Viet Minh Communist attack. It did not come. The valleys beneath the great frowning mountains ran rivers of mud, but no Communist soldier waded them, nor was there one to be seen anywhere. Laotians, worshiping in the temple of the celebrated Golden Buddha, had predicted that the Communists would never capture the sacred city of Luang Prabang. Had their predictions proved true...
...building, put up the lavish Student Club, built out over a man-made lake eight miles southwest of the center of Miami. With gifts from local citizens' groups and a few Manhattan millionaires, he built ultramodern classrooms and breezeways. He lined his walks with palm trees, planted flowering rubber bushes, poinsettia and bougainvillea. This year Miami's enrollment climbed to a total of 10,000 students...
...hemophiliac, having a tooth pulled is dangerous and may be fatal. A rubber band is the answer worked out by the University of Illinois' Dr. Carroll La Fleur Birch: slipped around the base of the tooth, it works its way down and forces the tooth out. Extraction, rubber-band style, may take from five to 105 days...
Porous Plastic. For use in rainwear, baby pants and other items that should let in air but be waterproof, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. announced a "porolated" vinylfilm that is seven times as permeable to air as ordinary plastic film...
Poly's first use-as insulation-is still important. In the past 2½ years the Army has saved $153 million by substituting poly for rubber as insulation for battlefield communication wire and cable. But Bakelite's President Bunn and other poly pushers think their market has barely been touched. Surgeons have successfully substituted poly tubing for bile ducts and poly film for brain membranes. Because of its flexibility and moisture-proof qualities, even at below-freezing temperatures, poly's biggest potential market may be in packaging fresh and frozen vegetables and other foods...