Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...austerely. British production had increased about 40% over 1946; the rate of dollar-spending in the first quarter of 1950 had been cut 25% from the first Marshall Plan year. Currently, U.S. stockpiling was bringing an unexpectedly large number of dollars into the sterling area, especially for tin and rubber. Britain's share of U.S. military assistance-still unspecified-would also help keep the dollar gap closed...
Both Ford and G.M. said that they had already committed thousands of cars to dealers at the new prices, and placed orders for supplies at higher prices. Furthermore, said Wilson, the price of G.M.'s materials had jumped anywhere from 7% in steel to 300% in rubber. Said he: only a day before Valentine's telegram went out, the Government itself had "raised the price of synthetic rubber, the production and distribution of which it completely controls . . . by 12% on one grade and 32% on another." (The Government's reason: higher raw material costs...
...behind it took my mimeographed sheet and ran his finger down the column of checks, and I noticed now for the first time that they all seemed to line up under each other. He looked up at me and then carefully inked a rubber stamp. It thudded loudly as it hit the mimeographed sheet. I leaned over to read the imprint. It said "ACCEPTED...
Aside from reports, the work that takes the most time at the seven annual meetings is the approval of all permanent appointments and those temporary ones of more than one year. Overseers are anxious to make clear that they are no rubber-stamp, but only four men have been turned down in the last 100 years...
...past five months, said O'Conor, no less than 14,373 tons of materials useful in war-steel products, scrap rubber, transformers, motors, fire engines-had been carried to China from U.S. ports and from occupied Japan. Most of the shipments, O'Conor pointed out, were technically legal, since many of the products were not specifically banned for export. But some shipments, even though legal, were plain dodges of U.S. and Japanese export controls...