Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying to a hostile country. In contrast to Djakarta, Colonel Simbolon's Padang was remarkably peaceful, secure, and spotlessly clean. It was also much healthier economically. Padang's cost-of-living index has risen 77 points in the last five years against 144 for Djakarta; bartering its rubber with Singapore produces an estimated $1,500,000 a month in profits. When Djakarta seized eight South Sumatran ships in an effort to halt the barter trade, the rebels quickly got them released by threatening to cut off Djakarta's oil supplies from Sumatra's refineries. Simbolon...
...strung around three sides of the house and its yard, and police mounted 24-hour guard. A team of radiation experts worked with a scintillation counter over every square foot of the grounds. The counter registered 60 times the normal (background) radioactivity. Technicians, looking like spacemen in white rubber suits with protective masks and gloves, used long-handled shovels to put radioactive matter away in a special truck. Frightened townsfolk washed their hair as often as Mary Martin in South Pacific, and many trooped in to the local police station to have their radioactivity tested. All this furor was touched...
Bolsheviks leaped to the stage and wrested the Speaker's bell from Shvetsov's hand. The Bolshevik Sverdlov, ringing the captured bell, announced the opening of the Assembly for the second time. After a singing of the Internationale, Sverdlov invited the Deputies to become a rubber-stamp Parliament, warning us that "even from a formal point of view," any opposition to the Soviet regime was, in essence, illegal. Before murdering the Assembly, the Reds were giving it the option of committing suicide...
...trending government came to power, repeated threats of nationalization have dried up most sources of private capital, foreign and local. In partial compensation, Ceylon has got $20 million from the Soviet bloc, the great bulk of it a grant from Communist China, which is hungry for Ceylon's rubber. Recently a 16-man Soviet delegation came to Colombo to talk over a proposed Soviet credit to finance oil prospecting, expansion of Ceylon's sugar and textile industries and construction of hydroelectric projects. Prospects that the Soviet credit would go through, announced Ceylonese Transport Minister Maithripala Senanayake last week...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, (D-Tex.) said today Senate investigators will inquire into the possibility that "administration rubber hose tactics" figured in Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin's move to retire from the Army...