Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hunstanton, Norfolk, when the seawall broke, isolating 35 bungalows. An Air Force Weasel set out to rescue the cottagers and was swamped. A motor-launch crew tried three times to breast the gale and was blown back. Without a word to anyone, Reis Leming, clad in a rubber "exposure suit," waded into the icy waters, pushing a rubber raft ahead of him. Often the water swirled above his head, but "I just hung on until I could get a foothold again," he said...
Under pressure from Washington, non-Communist shipments to Red China are dwindling. Example: in 1951, Malaya sent the Reds $32 million worth of natural rubber; last year, it sent practically none. Even Hong Kong's busy entrepot trade is quietly stagnating: monthly exports to the mainland dropped from $22.8 million in 1951 to $8.2 million last year...
...Rubber for Rice. Three non-Communist nations resist U.S. pressure. Egyptian cotton deliveries to Chinese Communist ports doubled in the past year; Pakistan's jumped from $45 million in 1951 to $54 million in the first six months of 1952. Most alarming of all, Ceylon, a member of the British Commonwealth, recently signed a five-year agreement to send 250,000 tons of rubber to the Red mainland. The U.S. had offered to buy the rubber at prevailing world prices, but the Ceylonese demanded an extra $50 million U.S. aid (in addition to the purchase price) as a condition...
...capital, Monrovia, is named for President James Monroe; its constitution is based on that of the U.S. Population: 20,000 Christian descendants of the former slaves, who run the show; 1,500,000 jungle pagans, some of whom were not subdued until 1936. Resources: gold, iron ore, (Firestone) rubber...
Humphreys was previously an employee of Price, Waterhouse and Company, and until 1948 was head of the U.S. Rubber finance committee...