Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PICTURES, originally bought by General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Teleradio subsidiary for its film backlog (TIME, Aug. 1), will swing back into full operation as a major moviemaker. After virtually shutting down under Industrialist Howard Hughes, RKO will start off with a $22.5 million budget for eleven films (among them: Cash McCall, A Farewell to Arms, The Syndicate) in the first six months of 1956 alone...
...China mainland (only a mile away), roasted whole pigs, tin bathtubs, hollowed-tree coffins, ancient cures compounded of dried sea horses, centipedes, lizards and snakes. Yet more than 1,500 workshops and factories, many of them new and equipped with modern Western machinery, pour forth a cascade of flashlights, rubber shoes, bicycles and cheap cottons for the marketplaces of Southeast Asia. The colony consists of 391 sq. mi.; most of it-a 356-sq.-mi. mainland area called the New Territories-is leased from China until 1997. But the overwhelming mass of people live on Manhattan-sized Hong Kong Island...
Groundwork for the coup was laid six months ago, when Teleradio (subsidiary of General Tire & Rubber Co.) paid Industrialist Howard Hughes $25 million for RKO Radio Pictures and RKO's well-stocked film library (TIME, Aug. 1, 1955). In December, O'Neil got back more than half the investment by selling television and foreign rights on 740 feature-length movies, almost all RKO owns, and some 1,000 short films to Manhattan's C&C Super Corp. C&C paid $12.2 million in cash and agreed to pay $3,000,000 more over the next two years...
Made of wood, metal and rubber, the arm is powered by a flat, easily hidden carbon-dioxide container linked by rubber tubes to a system of tiny valves. The valves can be opened or closed by the slightest movement of the muscles over which they are placed. The opening of each valve causes carbon dioxide to spurt from the container through a corresponding tube to tiny air bellows that move part of the limb. The carbon gases escape through a special exhaust...
Seiberling Rubber-eighth biggest U.S. rubber company-has not been doing well. Lacking the assured market enjoyed by big companies that sell directly to automakers, it has had to depend instead on chancy replacement sales. In 1954 Seiberling sales dropped 11% below 1953 to $35.7 million, its net earnings 79% to $215,789, and its common-stock earnings from $2.10 in 1953 to 2? per share. The company has started diversifying into plastics, and 1955 looks like a better year, with sales of $34 million and earnings of $834,000 in the first nine months. Said Lamb last week: "Seiberling...