Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the intestinal tract or were destroyed by the stomach's digestive juices. Then Dr. Papanicolaou tried a device invented by Dr. Frederick G. Panico: a sausage-sized balloon with about 250 pieces of braided silk attached. The patient swallowed the balloon and about two feet of rubber tube with it. Once inside the stomach, the balloon was inflated and worked around for an hour so that the tufts of silk would pick up as many cells as possible...
...global scramble for strategic materials, Russia last week grabbed with both hands. In Singapore, the Soviets bought rubber by the shipload, sent prices bouncing up almost 6?a pound in one day to 52.5? a pound. As a result, rubber also rocketed in New York-to 54.3? a pound, a 22-year record. New York's Commodity Exchange governors, fearing that the futures market was soaring out of control (a speculator who put up $800 to buy rubber futures in January could have had a $7,500 profit last week), ordered speculative futures margins doubled; buyers...
...Akron last week, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the five sons of Harvey S. Firestone unveiled a statue of their father...
Four of the sons were picked by their Princeton classmates as "most likely to succeed." They did. Roger S.. 38, is president of Firestone Plastics Co.; Leonard K., 43, president, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of California; Harvey S. Jr., 52, chairman, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; Russell A., 48, director, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; Raymond C., 41, vice president, Firestone Tire & Rubber...
Grace's claim was not as fantastic as it sounded. In World War II the biggest drain on U.S. steel production came from the simultaneous need to build a whole new Navy and a vast cargo fleet, plus hundreds of new oil refineries, aluminum plants, synthetic rubber plants, steel mills, etc. War in Asia had found the U.S. with most of these facilities in use or in reserve. Thus, even the heavier requirements for aircraft and tank production now would come far from matching the huge needs of World...