Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thayer (Ted) Watkins, 18. of Denver. The son of a factory worker and a waitress, Ted worked his way summers as a dishwasher, salad cook, spray painter and apprentice engineer in a local rubber factory. In his spare time he puttered about his school laboratory over such experiments as determining the nitrogen in wheat and recovering the tin from tin cans. Had it not been for his $2,000-a-year scholarship. Ted could have earned a degree only by going to school at night. Now he is studying to be a chemical engineer at M.I.T...
...specialty until he had already carved out a career as newsman, free-lance magazine writer and Government planner. In World War II he served as right-hand man to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who credited him with "doing all the work" on the survey that formed national policy on rubber production. In 1948 the Saturday Evening Post assigned him to do a post-mortem on the election upset. The result led him to a Guggenheim fellowship that financed a two-year study of election phenomena, produced the first of his two notable books on politics, The Future of American Politics...
FOLDAWAY SPARE TIRE, almost small enough to fit in glove compartment, will be brought out by Gates Rubber Co. Tire, which will last 1,000 miles, works like inner tube. After pulling flat tire from wheel, motorist loops Gates tire around rim, inflates it with carbon dioxide gas bottle in kit. Gates thinks tire will be boon to sportscar drivers who are cramped for luggage space...
...barren offshore salt dome last year alone), the costs of mining it even higher. But willingness to take the risks built Freeport into the second biggest producer (first: Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.) of the mineral that is used in the production of everything from fertilizers to detergents, steel and rubber. Last week Freeport tackled its biggest risk yet: President Langbourne M. Williams, 53, announced a deal to exploit one of the world's richest sulphur mines and the first large known offshore deposit...
...million aluminum plant at Point Comfort, Texas. Estimates are that the surging chemical and petrochemical industries will shoot up 70% by 1960, and the Gulf Coast will get much of the expansion. Texas alone will add $260 million worth of new plants in the next two years. Firestone Tire & Rubber is building a huge chemical plant at Orange, Texas; Dow Chemical is expanding its Freeport. Texas plant by $45 million, while Gulf Oil, Foster Wheeler Corp., Lake Charles Chemical Co., Buckeye Cellulose Corp., Coastal Chemical Corp., Union Carbide & Carbon are pouring in millions more for new facilities along the waterway...