Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accident. Stocky, firm-jawed Referee Swaffield has a reputation for avoiding that sort of attention. A Watertown, Mass, businessman (advertising manager for Hood Rubber Co.) five days a week, Swaffield has spent most of his football-season Saturdays for 24 years learning to be both omnipresent and inconspicuous. He was never a college football star himself, though he did earn baseball and basket letters at Brown ('16) and played enough football to get "the feel" of it. Like his fellow officials, he started with high school and frosh games, graduated in time to the college circuit. This year...
...gesticulating armies of children who will jam Central Park West and Broadway this week to see Macy's famed Thanksgiving Day parade were prepared for what could only be described as a Sensational Experience. Bands, clowns, floats and gigantic, inflated rubber animals were scheduled as usual. But Macy's, in one of its super coups, -had also procured the services of the noblest drugstore cowboy of them all-none other than television's black-clad, white-haired, 55-year-old William ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd...
...Rubber is no problem. Russia was the first country (1936) to set up a sizable synthetic-rubber industry, now produces about 125,000 metric tons a year...
...make each of these regions as self-sufficient as possible, so that if one is knocked out in a war, the others can fight on. But Russia's regions are still heavily dependent on each other, which means on transport. For example, nearly all Russia's synthetic rubber is made at Voronezh, four-fifths of her trucks and cars are made at Gorky and Moscow, each more than 300 miles away...
...speech to the American Petroleum Institute in Los Angeles, "America cannot afford another steel strike. Much of our present difficulty is due to the fact that strikes have cost our nation 29 million tons of steel since V-J day . . ." Furthermore, "men in top-paying industries ... in automobiles, oil, rubber, and many others-have already had a raise this year, but our steelworkers have not. So our men can't see why they should be discriminated against-and, frankly, neither...