Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday night, March 1, was quiet in Shelton, an industrial town of 29,000 in the Naugatuck Valley region of southwestern Connecticut. At the Sponge Rubber Products factory, which stretched for two blocks along the Housatonic River, only two guards and a boiler operator were on duty. Suddenly three men, armed and wearing ski masks, appeared inside the building. They abducted the three employees and drove them to a nearby woods, where they taped them to a tree. One gunman hinted to his captives that he and his companions were connected with the radical Weatherman movement...
...grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment accusing ten persons of conspiring to blow up the factory-and there was not a Weatherman among them. Quite the contrary. The first on the list of the indicted was none other than Charles D. Moeller, 48, president of both Sponge Rubber Products, a division of Grand Sheet Metal Products Co., and of their parent company, Ohio Decorative Products Inc. of Spencerville, Ohio. If convicted, Moeller could be sent to prison for a total of 60 years on six counts...
...trim, wavy-haired Baptist minister and self-proclaimed clairvoyant from Memphis who purports to have foreseen a variety of specific deaths, illnesses and other disasters. Bubar met Moeller about ten years ago, became his spiritual guru and ultimately a director of Ohio Decorative Products. He supposedly served Sponge Rubber Products as a water-purification consultant, annoying various managers by poking around the main Shelton plant unescorted and as he pleased. But the plant, so far as anyone knew, had no water problems...
Federal authorities, anxious to minimize any prejudicial publicity, have so far not revealed their theory of the crime's motive. The signs seem to point to old-fashioned insurance fraud. Moeller bought Sponge Rubber Products' manufacturing operations and inventories last year from the B.F. Goodrich Co., which had found the company's profits unacceptably low. Shortly thereafter, he lost a $5 million Sears, Roebuck account after jacking up prices too abruptly, then lost more business after severely tightening credit terms for customers. A day after Moeller's arrest, Sponge Rubber Products' attorneys filed an insurance...
...until 1816 that the German baron, Karl von Drais, devised a recognizable model of the contemporary machine. That bike had everything a rider would want-except pedals. The cyclist walked perched on a saddle and propelled himself by running and gliding. In the mid-19th century rubber tires replaced the old boneshaking metal rims and high-wheelers elevated the rider far above the crowd -making crashes all the more resounding...