Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote at different times for each of the magazine's four sections (Home, Foreign, American and Business World), and supplied one or more articles for each issue. His research and writing included, among other things, reports on the Malayan rubber supply, the British electoral system, the Argentine-induced meat shortage, and the troubles of the Long Island Rail Road. He did a "leader" on the money fight between the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve...
...wheels by the red plastic tip on the antennae which barely protruded from the drifts. But when I approached it I saw that the police had tunneled in their cute way to the right windshield wiper. Adding insult to injury they tied the tag to the rubber part of the wiper with a knot any boatswain would have admired. It defied knives and fingernails. Finally, I stripped it off and the rubber left the wiper like a peel leaving a banana...
Depreciation of the Pith Helmet. The rubber boom and less spectacular booms in tin and pepper have bounced salaries and wages all along the line. The rich are spending their money on bigger and flashier cars (a Rolls-Royce is no rarity...
...their remote plantations the planters live behind barbed wire, go about armed and with bodyguards. Communists have murdered ten of the 42 European planters in the state of Pahang. Every month Communists slip into the rubber estates, slash the rubber trees. In one month last year they slashed more than 67,000 trees, and a slashed rubber tree is out of production for about seven years...
Sulphur is one of the mainstays of U.S. industry. It is needed for everything from steel, fertilizer and rubber, to paper, rayon and flea powder. It is also one of the most plentiful of raw materials; in its most common form-pyrites deposits (sulphur mixed with other materials)-millions of tons are found above ground all over the world. Yet last week the U.S. and the whole Western bloc of nations were short of sulphur...