Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Indonesian Premier Djuanda threatened "drastic action" against unauthorized seizures of Dutch property, SOBSI-led workers seized a Dutch club in Palembang, largest city of south Sumatra, two banks in Semarang in central Java, tea, coffee, rubber and palm-oil plantations in northern Sumatra and west Java...
Thirty years ago, Rubber Baron Harvey Firestone made an agonizing reappraisal of his business, reached a decision: for the first time since he founded the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900, he would have to make a low-cost tire. The best way to sell it and still uphold the firm's reputation for quality was with an institutional-type show of good music-which his wife Idabelle adored. So on Monday night, Dec. 3, 1928, The Voice of Firestone crackled out over 41 stations of the NBC network, between Physical Culture Prince and The A. & P. Gypsies. Unlike...
...East German Parliament rubber-stamped the demand of the justice minister, Hilde Benjamin, for powers to prosecute fleeing citizens. They now are escaping from the satellite at the rate of about...
...stage lot in Hollywood plus its eleven-stage studios in Culver City and its valuable stock footage library. The deal-perhaps the most dramatic example yet of TV's upstaging the movies in their own backyard -is being "finalized" with the General Tire & Rubber Co., which bought the RKO properties two years ago from Howard Hughes for $25 million. Desilu plans to devote the studios to more of the kind of TV production that has put RKO out of the movie business...
...captured his horrified attention. It was a time before Europe knew itself capable of Belsen, and Europe was shocked by Casement's voluminous, angry reports (published in 1904) on torture, floggings and forced labor. Later, he made similar reports for the British Foreign Office about cruel treatment of rubber-plantation workers in Peru. By now, Casement had become a romantic celebrity with something of Byron about him. He was knighted by King George V, and he wrote a fulsome letter of gratitude to Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey about his honor...