Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, roly-poly George E. Allen bobbed around Washington like a pneumatic rubber horse; everybody liked to ride him and he was always good for a horse laugh. Then he disappeared from the public gaze. George was back tending to his well-paying private affairs which have made him a millionaire...
...floor of the cockpit, holding one of the controls in place with a knife. Jones knew he could not make it back to the Rochester, brought his craft down on the Han River in territory then still held by the Reds. Jones and Whittall took to their rubber life raft and reached an island in the river. As soon as the moon came up, they were rescued-by a helicopter...
Kippers were not the only out-of-the-way item that Britain was exporting to the U.S. in her increasingly successful search for dollars. Others included rubber life-size king cobras for theatrical and carnival use, orchids, carillon bells and radioactive isotopes...
...Creswell's mine at 4 a.m. one day last week a fire broke out 1,000 ft. below ground on one of the newly installed rubber conveyor belts. Of 99 miners in the area, 19 crawled to safety, 80 were trapped. Said one who got out: "The men in our party who lagged behind, crawling on their hands and knees, were dragged along by others...
...enterprising, free-trading Hans Isbrandtsen has become the biggest independent U.S. shipper. He owns ten ships with a replacement value of $20 million, has about 40 others under charter. Much of his cargo carrying is done for his own account: Isbrandtsen trades in such varied commodities as steel, sugar, rubber and grain, and buys coffee which he packages and sells (as "Isbrandtsen 26") in New York and neighboring states...