Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is somewhat famous for the basketball players on its staff. Until a few years ago even President Edward J. Thomas played on the Company team, and A.M.P. Marvin Huffman is no exception. Once a member of the Indians NCAA championship outfit, he joined Goodyear in 1940 and is now Assistant to the Vice president...
...inhabitants of Sungei Pelek. Here Templer hoped his new curfew-and-questionnaire technique would smoke out the whereabouts of 30-year-old Liew Kon Kim, a shrewd Communist leader known as "the bearded wonder." Templer imposed another curfew on 80 square miles of Communist-terrorized rubber estates and tin mines between Kuala Lumpur and Pahang state...
...result of such decisions is that, instead of stabilizing wages, WSB has helped them go up more than its own rules permit, at least in big cases where political pressures are brought to bear. With the coal miners, brass workers, oilmen, rubber workers and others, all waiting in the wings for their new contracts, it looked last week as if the steel decision would be the most unstabilizing...
Good Gripper. B. F. Goodrich Co. brought out a new tread design on its puncture-sealing, tubeless tire. The tread has more than 10,000 tiny blocks of rubber (16 to the inch), approximately a quarter of an inch deep. When the brakes are applied, the blocks flatten out, giving the tires more traction. On icy pavements, said Goodrich, the tires will stop a car 15 to 30% faster than conventional tires...
...Harvard faculty participate in this program," Clark said. This is done in two ways. People are hired directly from other colleges, especially M.I.T. and Washington University of St. Louis. Other projects have involved personnel from commercial companies such as Gulf Oil, Ford Motor, American Can Company, Hood Rubber Company, and several aircraft corporations...