Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very poor condition); "piece, piece of iron" (any car); "heat and music" (radio and heater); "bill" ($100); "dozen" ($1,200) "cream puff" (a used car that was well taken care of) ; "dings" (minor dents) ; "down on its knees" (bad front end) ; "on the clock" (on the speedometer) ; "barefoot, no rubber, no shoes" (wornout tires); "stick and no box" (aerial but no radio...
Last week Ceylon (whose Prime Minister is Don Stephen's son Dudley) was hugging Russia's partner in crime, Red China. Occasion for the dangerous embrace: a chance to do some trading in rubber and rice...
...Rubber tires on locomotives...
...board's action, Cox said: "The real issue before us, in this case, is whether we shall now abandon the fight against inflation . . . Our decision is against such a step . . ." The coal miners, he added, could not justly claim larger wage increases than those granted to steel, rubber, auto and other workers...
...Rubber Pistons. In July, they found their volunteer: a man of 41 whose mitral valve (between the upper and lower quarters of the heart's left side) was not working right because of rheumatic-fever scars. His chest was opened. Through a vein leading from a lung, a tube was slipped into the upper left side of the heart. This drew blood out of the heart to the six-cylinder pump, where fingerlike rubber pistons boosted it on its way. From the pump another tube led the pulsing blood back to the patient's aorta, where it would...