Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentimental (and thrifty) competitors actually drove their cars to the race. But the quaint tradition that a sports car is a practical vehicle, designed for everyday use, seemed as antiquated as the Stanley Steamer or the solid-rubber tire. Well-heeled pros who turned up for the Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance last week brought their cars by rail or trailer, by plane or ship-any way but under their own power. The 5.2-mile course on Sebring's abandoned airfield was enough to tear the guts out of the finest engine. Mechanics needed every available...
...Delegates from Cuba, Mexico. Honduras and Ecuador announced that U.S. firms were strongly interested in helping build a bottle-making plant, expanding a $4,000,000 rubber plant (Firestone Tire & Rubber) to make cheap sneakers for Mexican farmers, developing a $5,000,000 building and development project to build homes for Hondurans, operating coffee plantations in Ecuador...
...Wyman Carroll III will show movies at 7 p.m. tonight in the Union and look for undergraduates with a "sincere interest" in snaring birds for the Eli, insects for Walter Reed, and soil for the U.S. Rubber...
...busy automakers sent a wave of prosperity glimmering through many an allied industry, e.g., steel, rubber. On a wave of orders from Detroit, Bethlehem Steel's fourth-quarter profits rose 20% above 1953, to $48,383,317, and Republic Steel Corp.'s earnings for the comparable period went up 27%, to $17,781,218. Goodyear's final-quarter earnings reached $16,256.508 (v. $14,001,706 in 1953); Goodrich's hit $11,444,008, up more than $2,000,000 from the year before. Du Pont's fourth-quarter earnings doubled, to $2.59 a share...
Married. John Wilmer Galbreath, 57, Ohio real estate tycoon and president of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club; and Mrs. Russell Firestone, fiftyish, widow of the second son of Harvey S. Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; both for the second time; in Miami...