Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient in position for deep, high-power X-ray treatments, e.g., those used in cancer. In the past, uncomfortable plaster casts, straps and sandbags have been used. Now, thanks to cooperation between cancer experts and a geologist, Manhattan's Francis Delafield Hospital has a better method. A rubber bag is half-filled with small plastic "pebbles" and molded around the part of the body to be immobilized. Then the air is withdrawn from the bag. The vacuum "freezes" the plastic pebbles into a solid mass which holds the patient like big, strong hands. After the treatment...
...chauffeur-and two dead pigeons. Police believed the birds were homing pigeons hastily killed. Mme. Duclos insisted that they were the gift of a friend-for stewing with fresh green peas. She didn't explain what use was to be made of the short-wave radio, the rubber-covered truncheon or the loaded automatic also found in the car. Next day, France's top Communist,* caught flagrante delicto, was led before a justice of the peace and held for "attempt against the security of the state" (maximum but unlikely penalty: Devil's Island). Holding his handcuffs aloft...
Moores quickly unloaded a rubber raft, paddled out into the lake and started fishing in earnest. Says he: "I made five casts and I hooked five trout, none of which could have weighed less than eight pounds. There's no other place in the world you can do that. Of the five, I boated three. The biggest was a 25-pounder and the smallest was twelve. And I got them all in just over an hour. I sat there looking at those beautiful big trout and thinking of all the years I've spent boasting about an eight...
Political conventions are always exciting, and this year's are certainly no exception. With the President no longer a contender, this is the first time since 1928 that the nation will be witnessing two "open" conventions. Neither one will be the kind of rubber-stamp gathering at which the delegates merely meet to approve Administration policies and nominate the man already in office...
...Battery. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. introduced a new "dry"-type storage battery which is guaranteed to last three months longer than ordinary batteries. Its acid is not added to the battery until it is sold, unlike the conventional battery, whose acid is put in at the factory, resulting in a steady discharge of cells before the customer begins to use it. Price: about $1.50 more than other batteries...