Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Band music blared through halls and locker rooms. Gold lettering on the carved plaques was obscured by heavy chalk slashes, proclaiming: "Beat Yale!" The rubber floor matting announced "Flog the Dog" in foot-high adhesive tape letters. The casual visitor to Dillon Field House would have been overwhelmed. These exhortations, however, were not designed to impress the casual visitor with the atmosphere and spirit at Harvard. Rather, they were directed at the football team, this week going through the practice routine for the last time this season. They were not window dressing appeals to "The Old College Try," but instead...
...best of his day. Rube Waddell of the old Athletics, Cleveland's Addie Joss, Ed Walsh of the White Sox, Amos Rusie of the Giants, Washington's Walter Johnson-sooner or later, Cy Young matched them all. In 1911 when he played for Boston, Cy's rubber right arm was still strong, but his legs were slowing down. "The boys are bunting on me," he said. "When the third baseman has to start doing my work, it's time to quit...
TIRE PRICES are going up for the fifth time in a year. Firestone, Goodyear, U.S. Rubber and others have boosted prices from 1½% to 5% on all tube-type passenger, farm, and industrial tires. But most rubber producers will not increase their tubeless-tire prices...
Died. Edgar E. Rand, 50, president since 1950 of International Shoe Co. of St. Louis, the nation's largest shoe manufacturers (1954 sales: $246,800,000), with 64 factories, two rubber plants and a cotton mill; of a heart attack; in the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago...
...employed a chaplain since 1947, and his advice is so heavily in demand that he will soon get a second assistant. The story is the same at San Diego's Solar Aircraft, Dallas' John E. Mitchell Co., Dearborn Stove Co., Ohio's Pioneer Rubber Co. At Solar Aircraft, the program was so well liked that everyone from assistant plant managers to welders pitched in to build the Rev. Tipton L. Wood a chapel...