Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite the fact that he has shown a tendency to be highhanded as well as high-principled. The French insist that they also support Diem (who consistently opposed their colonial rule), but U.S. officials suspect the French of trying to hold on to their colonial influence in the rubber-rich South by encouraging a pro-French clique of Vietnamese officers in intrigues against Diem. As a result of the intrigue, Diem is more or less locked up inside his Saigon capital by the forces of Army Chief of Staff General Nguyen Van Hinh, a graduate of the French air force...
...same time, a strange structure was rushed to completion at Farnborough. A steel tank (112 ft. long, 60 ft. high, 20 ft. wide) was built around the fuselage of Comet Yoke Uncle. Its wings stuck out at the sides through waterproof rubber packing, and the whole tank, Yoke Uncle and all, was filled with water. Then pumps forced more water into the Comet until the pressure rose to 8¼ lbs. per square inch, equaling the air pressure in a Comet's cabin when it is flying at 40,000 ft. While the pressure was rising, powerful jacks moved...
What they will see is an auto that is new from rubber to roof, with the large-car look of an Oldsmobile. Long before his predecessor at G.M., Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, made his crack about bird dogs and kennel dogs (TIME, Oct. 25), Curtice described the new Chevrolet as having "a hound-dog look"-long, low and forward-plunging. The same overall length (196 in.) as last year, the new Chevvies are lower by 2.6 in. to 6.3 in. (for the station wagon), have two inches more hip and shoulder room inside. With wrap-around windshields, they have...
...weeded out the kind of literalness that once led him to deliver drawing-board specifications for heaven, which, he assured his audience (apparently relying on Revelations 21:16), "is 1,600 miles long, 1,600 miles wide and 1,600 miles high." Under the bright lights, he paces his rubber-matted platform, crouching, pointing, swooping upon his acres of audience from one angle, then another. His long-fingered hands are almost constantly in motion, thrusting, carving space, evocatively touching his breast, head, eyes, mouth or ears. His plangent voice hammers the audience with hardly a change of pace...
Another type of suit is needed to counteract the effect of gravity forces. "G suits" do that job in the crudest way possible-by restricting the flow of blood. The G suit looks like a pair of close-fitting overalls, with five rubber bladders set in: one over the belly, two over the thighs, and a pair around the calves. Automatically inflated, these check the footward blood flow, and they can be deflated for straightaway flight...