Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massively backed, Perón razed Argentine democracy. He turned Congress into a Peronista rubber stamp, had it impeach and convict the balky Supreme Court. In a rewritten "social-justice" constitution, he legalized the re-election of Presidents for his own benefit, gave the state power to "intervene in the economy." He deluged the country with billboard propaganda: "Peron Fulfills, Evita Dignifies." With malicious glee he seized Buenos Aires' La Prensa, long famed as one of the world's topflight newspapers, turned it into a mouthpiece for the C.G.T. And with engaging buffoonery, he joked...
...nishertive as well as clever tictacs to hold his own among citizens who are given to throwing fulsuric acid and include not a few sexual regenerates. They will steal even the light bulbs in the laventry and often must be subdued by a copper's rubber cruncheon. As for the women, even when they look like cherumbs. "you get first of all a dose, an' afterwards bad public relations...
...Rubber & Research. Behind the two leaders range a dozen other big and little companies. Some pioneers...
...Thiokol Chemical Corp., which started out in 1929 as a producer of synthetic rubber, is now No. 3 in the industry, specializing in solid-fuel rockets. By adding an oxidizing (i.e., oxygen containing) agent to its synthetic rubber compounds, Thiokor turned the rubber into a highly concentrated fuel, ideal for such weapons as the Army's Nike, Hercules and Lacrosse missiles, the Air Force's Falcon air-to-air missile and the three-stage Lockheed X-17 research missile, which recently shot 600 miles above the earth. With two more stages, say Thiokol engineers, the X-17 might...
...monster engines North American must have pumps capable of 8,000 gal. per minute (enough to empty a 20 ft. by 40 ft. swimming pool in less than five minutes), gas generators which have the power of a nine-ton diesel locomotive. Solid propellants such as Thiokol's rubber-base fuels are far simpler and safer to handle. Yet the trouble with solid fuels is that they do not have the power of liquid fuels, cannot be relied upon to burn at a constant rate...