Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more unions than Reuther. Among Haywood's supporters, however, were the smaller unions, such unlikely "industrial organizations" as the Barbers & Beauty Culturists, Department Store Workers, the Government and Civic Employees and the United Theatrical Workers. Reuther was backed by most of the big C.I.O. unions, including U.A.W., Rubber Workers, Textile Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and International Union of Electrical Workers. The vote...
Lady Wonder, a 27-year-old mare, can't talk a word. By pushing rubber disks with her nose, however, she can make letters pop into view on a special alphabetical board. Dewing asked her to tell him his father-in-law's first name. She tapped out: MARION, the correct answer. Dewing was happily astounded. But it wasn't until he got home that he realized he had overlooked a great opportunity...
There had been a council of war at Rideau Hall over Commonwealth defenses. Most urgent subject: the 3½-year "state of emergency" in Malaya, where Communist terrorists 1) had taken more than 3,000 lives; 2) were costing $150,000 a day to combat; 3) threatened tin and rubber production, Britain's best dollar earners. A few months before, Communists had ambushed and killed High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney, the topflight colonial administrator who had been sent out to put order into Malaya's civil service. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "The trouble [has been] not only...
...Force uses a "partial pressure suit" made like a skintight union suit of strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...
...opening statement, U.S. Attorney Willis L. Hotchkiss outlined the charge: 117 members of the Du Pont family-59 of them minors aged four to 20-had conspired to restrain trade through a $5 billion empire composed of the Du Pont chemical company, General Motors and U.S. Rubber. Hotchkiss wanted the court to force the Du Fonts to sell their chemical company's 23% common-stock interest in G.M. (now worth $1.3 billion) and the 18% interest in U.S. Rubber ($27.6 million), and to cancel all existing contracts between the three companies. But after seven days in court, the trial...