Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case, it was plain last week that, hoarding bans or not, the U.S. was going to be pinched for many materials because of the failure of the stockpiling program. And although he had not taken over the job until last November, just before many prices such as rubber started up, Munitions Board Boss Hubert E. Howard took the rap. Last week he handed in his resignation and President Truman accepted...
Bazooka Boom. Thus with no fanfare last week, the Ford Motor Co., which made airplane engines in World War II, took on the job of making Pratt & Whitney Wasp Majors for B-36s in Chicago's vast onetime Tucker plant. To boost GR-S synthetic rubber production up to a maximum of 760,000 tons a year, Goodyear and Goodrich rubber companies were asked by RFC to reopen the last two idle rubber plants. And where quick action has been needed, U.S. industry has jumped to the job. Example: to fill the U.S. Army's need...
...fact that most arms contracts were still in the planning stage, there were already ominous signs of production trouble, notably in the aircraft industry. Since it has the biggest batch of orders ($5 billion), the scramble for materials was already shooting prices up. Machine tools were up 10% and rubber goods 15%. Warned the planemakers: the appropriations for the planes now on order were no longer big enough to pay for them...
...capital, pro motes, designs and operates the hotels for a fixed fee plus a cut (up to 25%) of the profits. Chief arranger, money-raiser and promoter for the company is President Wallace Whittaker, 58, who joined I.H.C. after 18 years as general manager of General Motors' Inland (rubber & plastic products) Division. Chief operator is Byron Calhoun, 48, a one-time bellhop who became part owner of Minneapolis' Radisson Hotel (he sold...
...also a test of Gale Hall's dashboard "Mile-o-Meter." The meter shows the driver the rate at which he is using gas, thus warns him when he is driving uneconomically (e.g., stopping & starting too fast) or his engine is wasting gas. The meter has a rubber tube to the intake manifold; the manifold pressure controls a needle on the dashboard dial, which shows the rate of gas consumption...