Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gullied wastelands, the shriek of tires and the stench of scorched rubber filled entire valleys. On straight stretches of new road built by his government, Pérez Jiménez watched the speedometer needle of the Mercedes-Benz tremble around 160 kilometers (100 m.p.h.). He flashed by goats, banana plantations, royal palms and startled girls in magenta dresses; he hurried dustily on through villages where school children lined the streets for shrill vivas, through towns that tried to attract official attention to their rustic needs with crude banners impossible to read at high speed. After nine hours he coasted...
...Dancing Goat. Among the most successful alumni of Breland's university are his "Caseys at the Bat" (hens that play baseball). It takes a very short time, he says, for a hen to learn that when she tugs at a rubber ring, an electrically operated bat will knock a small ball toward a wire-screen outfield and a few grains of wheat will fall into a trough. So the hen pulls the ring, and then runs madly for "first base'' (the trough). If the ball is intercepted by mechanical "defensive players," she knows by experience that...
...third time since November. B.F. Goodrich has just boosted all passenger and truck tire prices another 2½% to 5%, and the other big producers will probably soon follow suit, thus making the total price rise 15% since last fall. Reason: heavy demand, which has sent natural rubber prices up from 27⅝? to 35? a Ib. since...
Santee was finished; Nielsen was fading fast. While the two leaders had run themselves rubber-legged, Dwyer had timed himself perfectly. He crossed the line in 4:06.2, a new Baxter record. Some 65 yards back was Nielsen, the world's fastest indoor miler. And three yards behind him staggered Wes Santee. the Kansas cyclone that had blown itself...
...steep tumble in coffee prices was balanced by an air of inflation in other commodity markets. Tension in the Far East touched off a wave of buying in tin, lead, zinc, rubber. Malayan tin rose 2¼? to 92? a lb., rubber to a new 1954-55 high of 37¼ a lb. Copper supplies were tighter than at any time since the scare-buying at the start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market...