Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members were of the same high caliber: Miss Anna Lord Strauss, former president of the National League of Women Voters (vice chairman); the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; Republican ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut; Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; William E. Leahy, Washington lawyer; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Charles H. Silver, vice president of the American Woolen Co.; and the Most Rev. Emmett M. Walsh, Coadjutor Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio...
Miscellaneous Orders (e.g., transmissions, tank track, trailers, etc.): Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; G.M.'s Allison Division, $26 million; Timken-Detroit Axle Co., $29 million; Fruehauf Trailer Co., $34 million; G.M.'s Chevrolet, $6 million; American Steel Foundries, $15.8 million; Continental Motors Corp., $95 million...
Some Jargon, Some Quackery. There would be sacrifices for all to bear. The defense program might absorb up to a third of such basic commodities as copper, aluminum and rubber. Workers would have to "accept restraints and controls upon wages," forgo strikes. Families would have to make "their household goods last longer, their automobiles and appliances, their linen and clothes." Everyone would have to pay higher taxes (see above...
...when the President belatedly raised the figure to 3,462,205 men, the committee complained about the revision and asked somewhat querulously if they could expect further ones. Mrs. Rosenberg answered with spirit: "I asked the statistical department if there was such a thing as a rubber chart so they would not have to stay up nights revising figures...
...with our daily round," said Governor Sir Alexander Grantham after the Communists captured China. Hong Kong got on so well with its daily round that in 1950 it did a record $400 million worth of business with Red China. It transshipped to China increasing quantities of raw rubber from Malaya, as well as gasoline, steel and other strategic materials from the West...