Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crude rubber henceforth may be imported only by the Government, which will do all the buying & selling in an attempt to stabilize the price, which soared from 18? a lb. a year ago to a high of 85½? on Nov. 8. This will not bring on tire rationing, said the National Production Authority, because just as much crude rubber will be imported as before...
...delivered U.S. secrets to Courier Bentley for transmission to Russia during World War II. The biggest secret, his ex-wife said, was a formula for making explosives out of garbage. She later conceded that it might have been a formula, as Miss Bentley had testified, for making synthetic rubber...
...rubber, the U.S. had $780 million worth of synthetic plants which did not even exist when World War II began. By mid-1951 they will be producing some 900,000 tons a year (v. World War II's peak of 820,000 tons). Said B. F. Goodrich's President John L. Collyer: "With synthetic and stockpiled natural rubber, the U.S. has enough to meet all military demands for a five-year war and still have enough for essential civilian uses...
...Caspar Blandingses in a real jam can always be sure they'll find Ogden Nash coming to their defense in rubber-legged rhyme...
...time at all, the Navy and Air Force began firing orders at Aerojet and the company took off with a whoosh itself. Within 18 months, it got six Government loans to expand, still needed more cash. It got it from General Tire & Rubber Co. (which liked Aerojet so much that it now owns 81% of its stock...