Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under Secretary of War and boss of the Army's $100 billion procurement program, Republican Patterson urged a sweeping draft of civilian manpower, wanted to bar millions of automobiles from the highways to save rubber and gasoline. His explosion over the sight of valuable trucks delivering soft drinks in Washington was so noisy and prolonged that it got to be known as "The Battle of Seven-Up." He was bullheaded, and his violent temper became a capital legend; but he produced. In 1945 President Truman made him Secretary of War, succeeding Henry L. Stimson...
...Canadian-designed planes: Beavers, the Avro Jetliner, and an all-weather jet fighter, the CF-100. In Quebec City, 140 acres of factories were converted to a privately owned industrial center. By 1948, practically all the government plants, except some unconvertible explosives factories and the $75 million Polymer synthetic rubber plant at Sarnia, Ont, had been sold. The explosives plants are useful now in the rearmament program; the Polymer plant has been earning a steady profit for the government since...
Through a non-wettable plastic tube, which avoids damage to delicate formed elements, heretofore caused by collecting with glass or rubber tubing, the blood flows into a column of resinous beads (called an ion exchange column). Here calcium is removed to prevent clotting. On this resin are collected platelets, tiny disk-like formed elements of the blood which initiate the clotting process, obtained in this machinery for the first time in substantial yield...
...years, a handful of Communist-led bandits lurking in Malaya's jungles have terrorized the country, kept an army of British regulars and natives (140,000 at present) on the alert, and cost the government some $140 million a year. The cost to the world in lost Malayan rubber and tin may have been far more...
Three months ago, Dr. Ersner drilled through the bony obstructions and put a rubber tube through both nostrils so that scar tissue would not close them again. Even with this partial relief, her food tasted so much better that Andrea began to eat like a wolf and gained nine pounds. Last week Dr. Ersner took the tube out, and Andrea went on a smelling binge, running from food smells to her mother's perfume bottles...