Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point that "Malaya" gets across is that greed has no nationality but Americans have. Jimmy Stewart and Spencer Tracy play two American nondescripts, one a newspaperman and the other a convict. They are sent to Singapore to steal rubber from the Japs during the war. The rubber stealing business makes a reasonably good Terry-and-the-Pirates adventure story; but the obscure transition by Tracy and Stewart from riff-raff to flag-bearers makes the whole plot implausible and over-sentimental...
Then, as the comrades glared, Mannu disappeared into a shop, bought some rubber-soled shoes, a green necktie, a scarf, and a hat like the one he had admired in an American movie. He tipped the shopgirl $3, promenaded off with 25 friends to a lunch of lobster & champagne. He said that henceforth he would drink beer with his meals, travel only by plane. Then he flew off for Rome...
...Glasgow, the Conservatives' handsome Anthony Eden alternately beamed and looked embarrassed as 2,800 Scots serenaded: "Will Ye No' Come Back Again?" Back in his own Warwickshire, Eden spoke before 35 rubber-booted farmers, their wives and a white-haired vicar. Eden dawdled with his water glass, pleasantly twitted his women hearers. "Some of you ask for very naughty things," he said, "like extra petrol coupons." Two women giggled. One red-haired farm wife remained uncharmed. "For all his good looks," she whispered to her husband, "I'll still...
...Conny" Smythe, 55, the shrewdest, best-dressed and most volatile club owner in the business, views hockey with a calculating, professional eye. As long as his Leafs are bouncing enemy players around like India-rubber men and the turnstiles keep clicking, he wastes no time worrying about the long, 70-game grind of the regular season. Smythe specializes in outshining the competition when the blue chips are down-in the post-season Stanley Cup playoffs. For the past three years, Smythe's Maple Leafs have skated off with the coveted cup, although they finished the regular season in first...
Green Light from Reno. In 1937, when love bloomed, he, Michael Conway, an editor of the now defunct New Masses, was writing a book on U.S. labor leaders. She, Ruth McKenney, was writing a history of the Ohio rubber workers. The two met on a green hillside near New Milford, Conn, to exchange data...