Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wonderful Experience. Abe's biggest coup, Gold went on, was delivery of a suitcase full of notes and "between 25 and 50" blueprints on the manufacture of synthetic Buna-S rubber. This, the jubilant Russians told him, was worth "two or three brigades of men." Later, when Abe grumbled that his work for the U.S.S.R. was not appreciated, Gold introduced him to the chief Russian spy. His name: Semen Semenov. Spy Semenov's cover-up was a job with Amtorg in New York but Gold told Brothman that the Russian had come directly from the U.S.S.R. to thank...
...Malaya last week communist guerrillas still sowed death & destruction. Forty thousand British troops and a third of the Malaya Federation's budget were needed to hold down 5,000 jungle-wise Red terrorists. Yet Red destruction was more than matched by anti-Red construction. Rubber, tin and rice production stood at a record peak. More significant, the country's long antagonistic racial groups, the Malays and the Chinese, were closing ranks toward national unity...
...Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. raised prices 7½ to 10% ($1.40 on popular-sized tires), the fifth increase this year. Other tire companies were expected to follow...
...Rubber Reserve Corp. asked whisky distillers to divert about 15% of their capacity to the production of industrial alcohol to be used in synthetic rubber plants. (No whisky shortage is feared; there are 542 million gallons net in warehouses, a record high...
...year. Hoffman's offer had been accepted by the public administrator of Los Angeles County, who was disposing of the West Coast's biggest chain for the, heirs of Don Lee. Hoffman had bid $11.2 million; the only other bidder, an Akron bank representing the General Tire & Rubber Co.'s salaried employees pension fund, had offered only...