Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rickenbacker eventually collected three Duesenbergs, plus a pound of good-luck charms, and a team of drivers, mechanics and pitmen to lead to the racing wars. It was a hard and dangerous life-Rickenbacker was almost beaten to death by flailing rubber when he blew a tire at 90 miles an hour at Galveston, and missed death by inches at St. Paul when his car somersaulted three times...
Last week Tito's Yugoslavia dropped some 9,000,000 rubber balls in a standard Communist-style election. There was only one list of candidates-the Communist-led "People's Front." Voters, however, could drop their ballots into either a "yes" or a "no" box. To nobody's surprise, more than 95% plopped in favor of Tito's slate...
...dance (see cut). With him as he cast his own vote in Belgrade was Petar Stambolic, President of Serbia. Tito voted first, dipping his fist into both boxes, then holding up his open palm. But when Stambolic put his hand in the "no" box, he let go the rubber ballot. There was momentary horror, then laughter as Stambolic sputtered that he had made a mistake. "Petar," said Tito, "you are finished." But he said it with a grin, and waited with a grin while Stambolic, with official permission, fished out his vote and plopped it into...
...prize included the world's largest postwar (1,300,000 tons a year) exportable surplus of rice, a booming rubber and tin production, and a docile people. Siam was no bulwark, but the old land and its young King were worth a good look, as a garden is worth a good look as storm clouds gather...
...Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co. bought a minority interest (60,000 shares, worth $168,000) in the first tire-and-tube company in the Middle East. It will supervise construction of a $1,750,000 plant near Haifa, Israel, to employ 300 people, and will supply plant management and processes to produce 80,000 to 100,000 tires and tubes a year...