Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PROPULSION SYSTEMS : North American Aviation and General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Aerojet General Corp. are testing rocket engines to propel missiles beyond the earth's heavy stratosphere into the ionosphere. American Machine & Foundry Co. is at work on auxiliary power units for the missiles...
...SYNTHETIC-RUBBER production by 1958 will almost equal the world's total natural-rubber output. Since private producers bought the bulk of the $700 million industry from the government in April 1955, they have pushed expansion plans that will increase capacity almost 40% to 1,718,200 tons, v. the relatively stable total of 1,800,000 tons from rubber trees...
Kanakaratne critized the United States for cancelling Ceylon's right to economic aid after Ceylon was forced to sell rubber to Communist China because no satisfactory prices were offered in the United States. Ceylon slaughtered its rubber trees during World War II to keep the Allies supplied, he added, and now must see itself refused aid that is readily given to Franco Spain...
...horse was stuffed into a stall heated to 105° F., subjected to half an hour's isolation in a dank fog of springwater steam. As if that were not enough, tubes were shoved into his mouth and vapor blown down his throat. Later, through a rubber mask over nostrils and mouth, he was forced to inhale more of the curative minerals. After an hour of cooling stall-walking, Pyrame was led out to the light and air, got his daily ration of Bourboulien water, fresh from the spring...
Married. Harvey Samuel Firestone III, 26, only son of Rubber Baron Harvey Firestone Jr.; and Beverly Lou McFarlan, 23, small-town (Brooklyn, Ohio) schoolteacher; in Brecksville, Ohio...