Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with soaring food prices, shrinking pay and government corruption, the people of São Paulo, Brazil's No. 2 city (pop. 2,500,000), rose in wrath last week and repudiated their political bosses. In a municipal election that was supposed to be a rubber-stamping of the government's choice for mayor, they voted 2-to-1 for a rank outsider. Then they launched a wave of sudden strikes that threatened to paralyze the whole metropolis...
...days later, Prague's rubber-stamp Parliament voted Antonin Zapotocky into the presidency, by a vote of 271 to ). On instructions from the central committee new President Zapotocky appointed as Prime Minister Viliam Siroky, boss of the Slovak party, and, as leader of the party secretariat, another party hack, Antonin Novotny. Since none of the three had any real stature, this seemed to be a stopgap arrangement. It was also a rebuff to Gottwald's ruthless, ambitious, unpopular son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, Defense Minister who failed to move up an inch. But perhaps Cepicka was a sleeper...
...Rubber. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., biggest of the tiremakers, saw its sales top $1 billion for the second successive year, and its net bounce from $36.6 to $39 million...
...wall to divide off his corner. No one took notice until he laid down his board. Then freshmen began filling up his corner. As he began to swivel from his hips, they followed suit. A couple of twists to set the pace, and Schmitt began wandering again, studying the rubber caps on the toes of his shoes. The squad kept on swivelling...
Died. William Martin Jeffers, 77, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, World War II national rubber director; in Pasadena, Calif. Beginning as a call boy at 14, "Big Bill" Jeffers took no vacation (except for a honeymoon) for the next 40 of his 62 U.P. years. He introduced crack luxury streamliners, began a massive expansion program to make the U.P. one of the biggest moneymakers of any U.S. railroad...