Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ideas from D.E. From Republican fund-raising (he has conferred several times with G.O.P. Finance Chairman John Folger) to precinct activity ("What are we doing to get people to come to our precinct meetings?") to campaign gimmicks (last week he even looked interested while examining a squeaking rubber elephant), the President's political preoccupation has increased along with confidence in his health. Morning after morning to Len Hall's desk come handwritten chits with the initials D.E., offering ideas and suggestions on political subjects...
...wings. Central's mechanics scattered, and to replace them, the airline called in a local beekeeper, Jack Garrett. Blow smoke or gas into the wing, he advised. No, said the airline engineers: formic acid from the dead bees might hurt the metal or the rubber on the gas tanks...
...hammer home the point, no fewer than 20 new factories are to be officially opened. Heading the list is a $2,000,000 General Electric plant to make circuit breakers; other factories will produce such goods as coils, rubber buckets, screen wire, photolithography, saber saws, frozen foods, billfolds, brassières. The openings will bring to 400 the total of plants drawn to Puerto Rico by its famed Operation Bootstrap...
They are well-lighted, pastel-tinted and smog-free (there is no heavy industry), and their signs cry out familiar brand names: Remington Rand, Sylvania, Paper-Mate, U.S. Rubber, Textron, Maidenform, A.S. Beck, Carborundum, Van Raalte, Bostitch, Sunbeam...
...TIRE PRICE INCREASE will be made in the near future, says B. F. Goodrich President W. S. Richardson. Synthetic-rubber prices have climbed about 4% to 23.9? a Ib. recently, but lower prices for crude rubber and nylon will keep tire prices about the same...