Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing the curious doctor was busy disentangling and studying last week looked like an endless skein of white rubber band. Actually, he explained happily, it was 100 ft. of rare tapeworm which he found in the intestine of a whale captured off Catalina Island. Although his specialization is the dwarf mouse tapeworm, a common human parasite, Dr. Donald Heyneman, 32, of the University of California at Los Angeles, finds all tapeworms fascinating. He hates to pass up a chance to find a new species, for the surface of tape-wormology has hardly been scratched...
...Brewster admitted that he had signed checks totaling $6,663 to Dimny Lee Walton, a Los Angeles interior decorator, for ornamenting the Seattle home of the late John Sweeney, secretary-treasurer of the Western Conference. Included were such items as an imported crystal chandelier ($174) and foam-rubber padding ($382). Brewster insisted that Sweeney's estate would pay for anything Sweeney had owed the union. How? Out of the $50,000 that the Teamsters' rank and file had since forked over, by special assessment, to Sweeney's widow...
...come out of obscurity to the final of one of basketball's major tourneys set Memphis to cheering, induced the college to rush five busloads of students to the big game. Against Bradley, the tired Tigers did not seem to stand a chance. They ran themselves rubber-legged, but a combination of Bradley poise and inept officiating left Bradley ahead at the half...
...show clients what it could do, the company literally produced a silk purse out of a sow's ear,* has since turned out industrial ideas by the dozen. It helped develop Owens-Illinois' Fiberglas, a new kind of blast furnace for Republic Steel, American Viscose's rubber fiber Filastic. When Bristol-Myers' brushmaking subsidiary, Rubberset, could get no more hog bristles from Red China in 1950, A.D.L helped invent a chemical substitute from chicken feathers. Its special taste laboratory has aided dozens of U.S. foodmakers. Its smell laboratory, which developed special chemicals to help American espionage...
Sometime in 1944 a half-dead marine in a rubber raft washed ashore on a beautiful South Pacific island inhabited by a beautiful nun. Mr. Allison and Sister Angela spend most of their time alone on the island learning how incompatible their words are, but what a wholesome friendship two brave souls in danger can discover...