Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ricardo ("Pajarito") Moreno, 21, idol of Mexico, flung his 125 lbs. out of his corner and rocked World Featherweight Champion Hogan Bassey with a couple of punches that hung the little Nigerian rubber-legged on the ropes. "Stop zee fight! Stop zee fight before he keels heem!" screamed Pajarito's souped-up fans...
Back in 1928. Kansas City Chemist J. C. Patrick stirred up a gummy mess of sulphur, carbon and hydrogen in an attempt to find a better, cheaper antifreeze. What he got was not antifreeze but one of the first types of synthetic rubber. He named it Thiokol (after the Greek for sulphur and glue), and with friends formed Thiokol Chemical Corp. As a rubbermaker, Thiokol did not go very far saleswise (one reason: it smelled so foul that it was dubbed "synthetic halitosis"). But since the age of space, the company has rocketed because Thiokol is a chief component...
Thiokol sales have gone from $4,800,000 in 1951 to last year's $31 million, which brought net profits of $1,452,000 (but still far behind the $162 million sales of its chief competitor. General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Aerojet-General Corp.). Though Thiokol's first-quarter sales are off a bit because some of its military contracts ran out and one plant was damaged by fire, Thiokol expects a 50% gain for all of calendar 1958. Reason: solid fuels are far simpler and safer to handle than liquid fuels that require a maze...
TIME stated that the Memphis Press-Scimitar "last week ran a glowing story on expansion plans for a local Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant-without mentioning that 2,600 of its 3,600 employees have been laid off." The only recent Press-Scimitar story about possible Firestone expansion in Memphis was printed in the Press-Scimitar on Nov. 19, 1957. Raymond C. Firestone, company president, on a visit to Memphis, was asked by a Press-Scimitar reporter if the company planned any expansion in Memphis in 1958. He replied:'"We have expanded the Memphis plant every year...
...Lucy are sole owners, there is no lag at Desilu when he decides to make a deal. He beat two major bidders for the RKO studios when he strolled off a Lucy set one day last fall and made a phone call nailing down the purchase from General Tire & Rubber Co., RKO's owner since 1955, for a bargain $6,150,000. Desi usually spends ten hours a day at work, chauffeurs himself in his black Thunderbird from the Beverly Hills mansion where he and Lucy live with their two children, Lucie Desirée, 6, and Desi...