Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French invested $2 billion, built up Indo-China's rice and rubber production; before World War II, the colony, along with Siam and Burma, was one of the world's three leading rice exporters. Its surplus went to rice-short China, a fact of great significance these days in Communist China's support of Communist Ho Chi Minh. All the raw rubber France needed came from Indo-China. There were other lucrative items: coal, wolfram, pepper, opium (which, to French shame, was sold to the natives through a state monopoly) and many jobs for a white bureaucracy...
...Francisco Home Containers Corp. went east with its "Fresherator," put it on sale in 500 stores in Cleveland and St. Louis. The Fresherator is a glass jar in which food is hermetically sealed by an aluminum, rubber-rimmed lid, pressed on by hand. In a refrigerator the jar will keep easily spoiled foods fresh for days. The company has made 450,000 jars to date, sells them at prices ranging from 49? to 98?, depending on size...
Died. David Marvin Goodrich, 73, longtime (since 1927) board chairman of the B. F. Goodrich Co. (rubber); last of Founder Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich's two sons, both of whom took a hand in the business; in Mount Kisco...
...reduce the patient's blood volume (and hence, blood pressure) at the beginning, so that there would be little or no loss from uncontrollable bleeding at the site of operation. They opened an artery in the wrist and let the heart pump the blood out through a rubber tube into a collecting flask (containing heparin, to prevent clotting). By an ingenious arrangement of valves and flasks, the doctors could draw more blood at will, leave the supply stationary, or pump it back. With the systolic blood pressure down to about 80 mm., the surgeons could operate more confidently because...
...chemical (maleic hydrazide), developed by U.S. Rubber Co., which kills crab grass, also retards the growth of a lawn without damaging it, thus reducing the necessity for frequent mowing...