Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking to the future, Dreyfus has doubled Renault's research budget and staff. Of his 60,580 workers, 802 are research engineers, half of them busy with pure research. Renault is experimenting with a turbodiesel locomotive, and has already sold rattle-free, rubber-tired subway cars to the Paris Metro. Says President Dreyfus: "We must be regarded as something of a pilot plant that sets the pace for the rest of the nation's economy. For the past three years we have been able to raise wages by more than 12%, while holding the price of our finished...
...Malaya has squelched its Communist guerrillas; surviving Communists are now taking Abdul Rahman's amnesty offer in heartening numbers. The fact that 40% of the population is Chinese is a potential source of conflict, but both sides are currently cooperating eagerly to consolidate the new state. Tin and rubber keep Malaya in dollars...
...heavily in 1957, the businessman outdid him, plunked down $37 billion for new plants and equipment (plus $1.5 billion more for new offices), and devised one of the major props under the U.S. economy. Steel expanded 5% to 141 million tons annually; aluminum added 2% to its capacity, synthetic rubber 14%. Oil and chemicals both spent record amounts for expansion. Serving them all. the nation's utilities grew at compound rates, increased their outlays 28% to $6.3 billion, and in the process added 7% to U.S. generating capacity. Among the additions: the first full-scale atomic power plant, which...
Metal Spare Tire. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has developed a flat, rubber-rimmed metal spare tire that takes up little room in the trunk, can easily be bolted on the hub over a flat tire by raising the wheel off the pavement with a jack. The motorist can drive as far as 100 miles on the tire at speeds of up to 45 m.p.h...
...devotion") and closes on Idabelle's In My Garden. Although the Firestone family influence on the show is waning (back in the early '30s, Harvey Jr. went on the show 50 times in twelve months with short talks on the history of transportation and rubber), one of the five Firestone brothers appears at one time or another to make an appeal for his pet charity (4-H Clubs, Community Chest, Future Farmers of America). And once, musically ambitious Elizabeth Firestone, granddaughter of the founder, got a chance on the show to introduce one of her own piano concertos...