Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detective Story. In Buffalo, ordered to clear the streets of underworldlings after an outbreak of wrongdoing, police dredged up Randolph Benson, charged him with disorderly conduct after they searched him, found he was equipped with a knife, a length of rubber hose and a volume entitled: The Blue Book of Crime...
...neither their government nor each other to exercise self-restraint. Gas stations were instantly besieged by vociferous motorists bent on getting their tanks filled with gas and also the gallon cans they brought along. When the government banned the sale of gas except directly into car tanks, they bought rubber tubes, siphoned the gas out of the tanks into home containers, then rushed back to the gas pumps for more...
...animated rag doll bounded onto the television screen, ogled the camera lens, wagged a pair of aileron ears at the audience and wrapped his rubber legs around the lilt of a song. Ray Bolger, the greatest U.S. comic dancer and a veteran of 30 years in show business, was back at work in TV-and just in time to inject some merriment into TV's procession of tired clowns. In a $1,500,000 musical potpourri called Washington Square, a sentimental paean to Manhattan's self-consciously picturesque Greenwich Village, Hoofer Bolger is making his second attempt...
...time, with the private motorist the first to suffer from it. Some industries dependent on oil are making plans to convert to coal, which will in turn bring up the problem of getting more coal. Steet production and its offspring, shipbuilding, will soon feel the pinch. Supplies of tin, rubber, wool and tea, all normally shipped through Suez, will inevitably decline...
...believed to have important medicinal powers. A Xolo's temperature is 104° F., and his skin, bare of insulation, feels hot to the touch. These properties made him useful as a living hot-water bottle, and he harbored no more fleas than if he were made of rubber. When Dog-Fancier Wright began to study the hairless-dog situation, he found Mexico full of peculiar dogs, more or less hairless, and of various shapes and sizes. The few to be found in other countries were also nonstandardized. This is not what a breeder wants, so Wright made three...