Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British, Danish and Panamanian freighters, sometimes pausing to lighten their load at Macao, steamed upstream to Whampoa, the port of Canton, through a muddy Pearl River channel which the busy Red Chinese recently deepened. Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal: goods must be long-hauled by rail 2,000 miles to the north. But to unload farther north on China's coast, ships must run the Nationalists' blockade...
...others: Mrs. Anna Edson Taylor in 1901; Bobby Leach in 1911 (he died a few years later, after slipping on a banana peel); Jean Lussier, in a rubber ball, in 1928. Two others tried and perished, in 1920 and 1930. Red Hill saw the second...
...that job, Larson, an Oklahoma-born lawyer and World War II artillery colonel, has proved that he has resourcefulness and shrewd bargaining ability. Last December, when natural rubber soared to 78? a lb., Larson took over the buying of all U.S. rubber imports, then resold the rubber to private industry at a loss. By so doing, he drove the import price down to its present 46? a lb., but Larson is selling to industry at 52? until the Government's loss on the purchases is recovered, As head of DMPA, Larson will be responsible to Charlie Wilson for finding...
Last week Tenor Lanza, a onetime street-gang wiseguy who never did a day's work until he was 21, was working hard for his money. In a sweltering rubber suit, he puffed along California roads or sparred with his bodyguard-trainer, trying valiantly to sweat off the excess poundage that was costing an exasperated M-G-M many thousands of dollars for an eleven-day delay in the start of his next picture, Because You're Mine. For the moment, Lanza looked more like Mike Di Salle than Lieut. Pinkerton or any other operatic dream prince. Just...
...with conflicting theories on infant colic, two Manhattan pediatricians ried grandma's remedy on 28 babies: a rubber pacifier. It pacified all but three...