Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin's white-and-gold St. George Hall, leading deputies of the Supreme Soviet, Russia's rubber-stamp parliament, settled down comfortably while some old friends of Communism spoke of peace. The friends-French, British, Canadian and U.S. emissaries of an organization calling itself the Permanent Committee of Partisans of Peace-were the first foreigners ever to appear before the Supreme Soviet. Their act was part of the current Russian peace offensive, a smokescreen designed to blind the West...
...Armalon, a tough new plastic for upholstering trucks, buses, sponge rubber furniture. In tests, the springs beneath it wore out before the coating cracked...
...where he had charge of selling millions of surplus Army shoes, Rand went back to International as boss of production, merchandising and distribution, was made a vice president in 1947. The company he went back to had mushroomed from one plant in 1898 to 55 factories, eight tanneries, a rubber plant and a cotton mill, with 35,000 employees and 12,000 stockholders. International Shoe, which makes 10% of all U.S. shoes (48 million pairs last year), has never been in the red. Last year it rang up sales of $190 million, profits of $7.6 million...
...Tracy, James Stewart and a name-heavy supporting cast in the kind of adventuresome folderol that lesser studios crank out regularly on small, starless budgets. Such high-priced talent probably seemed worth using while the story was still an idea based on an authentic wartime scheme: the smuggling of rubber out of Japanese-held Malaya. But the picture beats the basic idea into pulp fiction...
Before abandoning itself to derring-do, the film tries briefly to ring true by doggedly underplaying its account of how Stewart, a down & out newspaperman, persuades the government to free a convicted smuggler (Tracy) and send the two of them off on the rubber-smuggling project. The understatement is so clumsily overdone and ill-suited to the characters and situation that it defeats...