Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubber Match...
...could have been different. Right after World War II, before the arteries hardened, before rigor mortis began to set in, when the Liberalism of the '30's contended with the Reaction of the late '40's. It was a good fight for three years--before Suburbia won the rubber match, and World War III became the trophy. From The Dartmouth, January...
Things looked normal enough at the border railroad station of Lowu, where Hong Kong transships its imports to Communist China. Red-capped coolies unloaded copper wire from Europe, office supplies from the U.S., military truck tires from Japan, and natural rubber from Malaya. From the Chinese side of the border, past unsmiling Communist frontier guards, coolies carried the mainland food which the colony gets in return...
...under water as easily as above it. Called the Eager Beaver, the vehicle is a big brother of the submersible jeep (TIME, May 15). Its engine breathes and exhausts through vertical snorkel tubes like a latest-type submarine. Its wiring system is completely covered with a silicone-rubber compound that repels water. Tight oil seals keep water out of all engine openings...
There were other hitches in the first week of the freeze. In Manhattan, futures trading in rubber, hides, metals and cotton was stopped because nobody knew how to operate under the freeze. Because raw wool and cotton were still uncontrolled, makers of wool and cotton goods refused to take orders. They knew how much they could charge under the freeze -but they didn't know how they could make money at those prices in the future while raw materials soared.* Many a retailer was in the same boat. Said a San Francisco grocer: "I'm selling coffee...