Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubber Planes?" When he landed again at Suchow, evacuation jitters had already seized the troops awaiting air transport. Soldiers, ignoring orders, were fighting their way on to planes already on the field. Intermingled in the disorderly jam of troops, women dressed in soldiers' uniforms struggled to keep squalling infants from getting crushed. "My God," drawled a tall Texan, "they must think these planes are made of rubber...
...last week announced plans to spend upwards of $10 million, under Geddes' direction, doing over the hotel and making it more than double its present size. Items: spacious (25-by-21-ft.) rooms with two baths and a balcony, a roof swimming pool with a beach of washable rubber-composition sand. On the six city blocks of empty land that surround the present building, Geddes and Architect Paul Williams, who is collaborating on the plan, will build 500 bungalows connected by a tunnel system to the hotel room service...
...doing just that. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Columbus, Ohio, Wheeling, W. Va. and eleven other cities and towns, hundreds of thousands of children turned out to watch department-store parades featuring Jean Gros's balloons. He had a dragon 100 ft. long, a 450-ft. train with rubber figures of people and animals poking their heads out of the windows, Santa Claus, and a string of jeeps...
Made of thin Neoprene latex (synthetic rubber), the balloon was about 17 feet in diameter while on the ground. It was partially inflated with hydrogen, which expanded it into a sphere only when it reached 35,000 feet. Rising still higher, the balloon stretched itself to 75 feet in diameter before it finally burst...
Such problems are nothing new to the HTW, which had to cope with the same thing last year in rehearsals for Henry the Fourth. From that production they have learned two lessons--to wear rubber soles on your sandals and to attach your blades firmly to the hilt; a telling blow from the weapon of Monday Weisgal '45 sent his sword hurting into the wings during the climax of one show last year, where it flattened Jan Farrand...