Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wheels touched at howling speed, throwing the rubber off their nylon tires and the X-3 shot for miles across the level lake...
...Decided that the presidential yacht Williamsburg was a "needless luxury," ordered the gleaming 244-ft. vessel mothballed during his term in office. ¶ Recommended that the Government's $550 million worth of synthetic rubber plants, created during World War II, be turned over to private industry...
Flat Fixer. The Gates Rubber Co. of Denver put on sale a gun that repairs flat tires by shooting a rubber compound into punctures while the tire is still on the wheel. The compound seals the hole in the tire casing and also patches the inner tube. Each Vulco-Weld Tire Gun contains enough compound to fix 50 tubeless tires or 20 regular ones. Price...
...Radcliffe Management Training Program has received $3,500 from the United States Rubber Company to finance five full-tuitions scholarships...
...kicks a stone "downhill, Zorba turns to the scholar and asks: "Boss, did you see that? On slopes, stones come to life again." Sometimes he is a mythmaker: "My grandfather had a white beard and used to wear rubber shoes. One day he leapt from the roof of our house, but when his feet touched the ground he bounced like a ball and bounced up higher than the house, and went higher and higher still till he disappeared in the clouds. That is how my grandfather died...