Word: rubberizing
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Beeping Sound. The dream mailboy is a completely automated cart with 20 mail compartments. It runs on four rubber wheels and is driven by a battery-powered electric motor. Electrical sensors in the cart pick up low-frequency radio signals from wires that are strung under the carpets along the desired route. Following their path, the 500-lb. robot stops when its photoelectric sensing system picks up signal lights bounced off reflective tiles strategically placed on corridor walls at knee level...
...Administration has not given up the anti-inflation game entirely. John Dunlop, director of the C.O.L.C., is known as a muscular arm-twister who has been able to quash price increases with subtle combinations of browbeating and incentives. Dunlop, for instance, decontrolled such industries as autos, rubber and fertilizer in exchange for promises that executives would voluntarily hold down their prices and, in some cases, step up their output. Recently he said that he might urge the Administration, perhaps through the Federal Energy Office, to allocate scarce building materials to parts of the country where construction unions agree to only...
...tanks, and he knows all the numbers and countries they belong to. In a back pocket, he has dozens of coat hangers twisted into spears. In his front pocket, when he is not brandishing it, is a large bunch of squashed tooth brushes, bundled up in hundreds of rubber bands into one big bomb...
...other end of the ice, Chris Brig has been designated as the one who will attempt to keep Harvard's powerful offense from putting the puck in the net. Brig has seen that black rubber disc shot at him 882 times in 23 games this season. He has saved 784 of them for a 4.29 goals against average...
Posted as a consul in South America, in 1910 Casement again investigated the exploitation of rubber, and reported that Amazonian Indians were being as cruelly abused as if their masters had studied sadism in the Congo. This time, though, the villain was an English-owned company. Despite foot dragging back home and prevarication by the Peruvian government, it was forced to moderate its practices. In 1911 Casement was knighted for his effort, though he was now openly convinced that empire, left in the hands of commercial entrepreneurs, inevitably debased and destroyed the primitive communities whose land and labor they controlled...