Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steered a sightseeing boat in the Harlem River at the invitation of its skipper. He inspected a 50-million-barrel-a-year oil refinery in New Jersey, was told that it handles 50 times more oil than his whole country produces, and was handed a chunk of hot synthetic rubber. He was flown from New York to Washington, was taken to the White House for lunch with the President. Among the guests were both Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Harry Vaughan. The King shook hands and smiled, impartially...
...stepped Striker Paul Gruber, a hefty (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ib.) farmer from Utzenstorf. He carried a murderous loft. Stecken, a whippy hickory shaft with a heavy cylindrical head. Eyeing the small (diameter 2½ in.) hard-rubber disk perched on an elaborate tee made of two upcurving steel rails,* Gruber took aim, lowered his stick twice, then drove with all his might. The Hornuss buzzed off into...
Besides such fancy guns as hand-tooled Mannlichers, the hunters carried brass horns and other noisemakers for luring a stag to his death. The most effective device, the bleater, is a small rubber squeezer, ball-shaped and equipped with stops. Properly manipulated, the bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut. The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck...
Instead of making recommendations for wage settlements, as in steel, WSB can now only approve or disapprove of bargaining agreements already reached. And most unions, having used up most of their allowable wage increases, are after more than is permissible. The rubber workers, for example, are entitled to only about 5? an hour in cost-of-living increases. This week they settled with Goodyear for 10?, and the case will soon come before the board. John L. Lewis, for another, will hardly settle for the 10? his coal miners are entitled...
What can WSB do? The board is hoping that the coal, rubber and other industries will stand firm against demands for big boosts. If the companies don't-and many won't be able to in the light of the steel boost-WSB will probably find an put with "productivity" increases, i.e., raises to compensate for greater man-hour out put. It will probably turn out that the bigger and stronger the union, the bigger the "productivity" raise...