Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet aftermath of peace, Codner married, finished his studies in colonial administration at Oxford, and put in for service in Malaya, the place where he was born (son of a British rubber planter). It was an assignment for an adventurer-a job as assistant district officer in charge of 20,000 Malayans and Chinese in Tanjong Malim. The area was a hot spot in the interminable war between Britain and the Malayan Communists. Codner, often the hunter, could also be what he liked to be-one of the hunted. The village he worked in was ringed with barbed wire...
Died. Harry Aaron Cronk, 73, retired chairman of the Farm Products Division of the Borden Co.; after a long illness; in Neptune, N.J. In 1935, Cronk pleased millions of light sleepers when he introduced rubber tires and rubberized horseshoes for milk-delivery wagons...
Plastic Foam. A new sponge-like plastic foam was shown at the National Plastics Exposition in Philadelphia. The makers, Bakelite Division of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., call it more resistant to flame and chemicals than foam rubber. Almost odorless, the foam does not deteriorate with age or from moisture or acids. Among the uses: seat cushions and a backing for furniture upholstery...
After a seven month run in New York, Bert Lahr's latest vehicle has come to Boston for three weeks. Two on the Aisle, a series of twenty spearate sketches, shows that vaudeville satire is still funny but that Lahr and his rubber face can be stretched only so far. Out of the twenty scenes, four are uproarious, five more are amusing, and the rest is standard mediocre filler...
...what about his habit of squeaking rubber balls in your ear when you were dying in the last...