Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immense snake uncoiled" curving through "joyless sunshine into the heart of darkness." There was plenty of darkness in the Congo during the igth century "scramble for Africa," when Baudoin's great-granduncle, Leopold II staked out his monarchical claim to the uncharted Congo Free State. Leopold's rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt...
Women Golfers. For women golfers U.S. Rubber Co. has brought out a special golf ball dubbed the "U.S. Queen Royal," in which the rubber strips are wound less tightly. The increased "give," says the manufacturer, gets women golfers more distance to the drive than with other balls. Price: $1.10 each...
...bend my back a little and go down after a low pitch," Al remembers now. "Then he told me something else which I think helped me even more. He told me how to keep in condition during the off season, by swinging heavy bats and keeping a rubber ball in my pocket to exercise my grip...
...Today, in its ultimate refinement, lacrasse is played by ten-men teams on fields 110 yards long. Modern players are not too proud to protect themselves with helmets, shoulder pads, arm pads and long, ribbed gloves. Almost anything goes in the effort to move downfield and toss an India rubber ball into a netted goal, 6 ft. square. The ball can be carried, thrown or batted with the crosse (lacrosse stick); there is no rule against kicking it either. The rugged character who breaks for the goal while cradling the ball in his stick runs a gauntlet of swinging sticks...
...which it had sunk $40 billion (TIME, July 13, 1953), keeping this promise has turned out to be a big order. Nevertheless, the Administration has chalked up notable progress. Last week, in its biggest single step to eliminate competition with private business, the Government sold 24 of its synthetic rubber factories. Thus, with a pen stroke, it turned over to 15 companies virtually all of a $310 million industry, and netted a $39 million profit...