Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matters have never gotten so serious as to force students to resort to the techniques of prohibition days, when runners ran from speakeasy to speakeasy with rubber tires filled with liquor around their waists...
...lifted. All along the Cote d'Or, the gorgeous Golden Slope of vineyards that tints eastern France for 30 miles, the autumn sun beamed warm rays on the deserted towns. Except for a pair of black-clad grandmothers gossiping on the cobblestones and a couple of overalled, rubber-booted winegrowers closing a deal over a jug of Burgundy in the Cafe de la Cote d'Or, everybody in Nuits-St. Georges (pop. 3,600)-men, women and children, the schoolmaster and even the cure-was out harvesting the new vintage in the heart of France's Burgundy...
...Werner Forssmann was young (25) and eager to prove the worth of a revolutionary idea: that it should be possible to learn more about the inside of a diseased human heart by inserting a thin rubber tube (catheter) into it. But none of his hospital colleagues in Eberswalde, near Berlin, was willing to be a guinea pig. Suspecting the gleam in young Forssmann's eyes, the chief surgeon even forbade his experimenting on himself. Secretly one night Dr. Forssmann punctured a vein in his arm and persuaded a fellow resident to start working a tube into it. With little...
...EXECUTIVE SALARIES averaged $87,000 last year, reports National " Industrial Conference Board after survey of 899 companies in 27 industries. Highest payers: rubber companies, whose chief executive officers got average $140,000 annually. Lowest: construction companies, whose No. 1 men averaged only $56,000 annually...
...certainly known life because-as she informs the hero in the first few minutes of their acquaintance-she was naturally against Hitler, and spent three years in a concentration camp. The implication is that the average American girl could be considerably improved by the regular application of a rubber truncheon. Some may agree, but the heroine of this picture is not much of an advertisement for the method. Essentially, she is just one more gabby, opinionated woman, and whether from Pilsen or Pawtucket, she seems a bit of a bore...