Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adventure in Contentment. In Indianapolis, Rubber Researcher E. B. Newton announced the latest creature-comfort for cows: sponge-rubber sleeping mattresses...
Moslem women in black, Partisan girl soldiers in British battle dress, brown-uniformed ex-guerrillas wearing red-starred caps, men in fezzes and white turbans and bright sashes around their waists trooped to the polls. Each was given a rubber ball the size of a marble. They were instructed to place their hands, fists closed, in all the little boxes for the Government candidates and then in the one big box for the opposition. Then they raised their hands, palms open, to show that in one of the boxes they had dropped the rubber ball...
...Reid now puts inflated rubber bladders under his subjects' arms and thighs. The new gadgets record all wiggles, jumps and muscle-tensing, so that self-induced reactions can be spotted...
...book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; produced by John C. Wilson) juts up above the messy season's other musical exhibits, but is still slightly below see level. It is tasteful and tuneful, has some pleasant performers, an agreeable look. Even so, it is too much like a rubber ball that is new, pretty, smooth-and just won't bounce...
Stretchable. For the next three years, the world will have a huge surplus of rubber. So concluded the Rubber Study Group, comprised of experts of The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S. and France, at its second meeting held in London. The Group estimated production of synthetic and natural rubber at about 2.7 million tons, world consumption at 1.5 million tons...