Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this era of short fences and hopped-up baseballs, Roberts' achievements are not easily come by. Managers flash their signals from the bench and teammates bawl their encouragement. But pitching is a loner's art. Once a man places his forefoot on the white rubber slab and takes aim at the plate 60 ft. 6 in. away, he is on his own. Only his craft and strength can whip the ball safely past the waiting batter...
While the U.S. was barring one of its own businessmen from trading with the Reds, British businessmen persuaded their government to open up trade with the Iron Curtain countries. The British eased a 1951 embargo on shipping the Chinese Reds rubber, tractors and electronic equipment, and approved a shipment of 150 tractors, though such exports are still banned for U.S. businessmen. Businessmen in Japan, France, Belgium and other allied nations were also pressing their governments to get U.S. approval of their big plans to sell to the Soviet and her satellites. Riled by this eagerness to trade with Communist nations...
...started on a tour of his empire last week, Board Chairman Harvey S. Firestone Jr. of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. took a long look ahead at the industry's future. "In ten years," he said, "world rubber consumption will climb 52% to 4,400,000 long tons annually. If demand is to be met, plans to expand must be put into effect now." Firestone did more than talk, he backed it with cash. His company announced plans for a $5,300,000 tire factory and a plantation in the Philippines which, starting in 1957, will roll...
...tire plant at Havana, Cuba, to be ready by 1957; plus more millions to expand existing plants in eight nations (England, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, Brazil); a big share of the $12 million cost of a new synthetic rubber plant which it will operate in Great Britain with other companies...
...million to buy two synthetic rubber plants, to expand production and make Firestone the first U.S. company to manufacture its own petrochemical synthetic ingredients-styrene and butadiene-in two huge plants abuilding at Orange, Texas...