Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spark of labor unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...
Akron's troubles stemmed ostensibly from deadlocked contract negotiations. But they were also compounded of more inflammatory stuff-old resentments, a bitter intra-union feud between United Rubber Workers' President Sherman Dalrymple (who wanted no strike) and locals which had repudiated the no-strike pledge...
...British Empire, oil-rich, rubber-rich Sarawak is an in dependent patch on the northwest rim of Dutch Borneo. Britain's control stops at defense and foreign affairs. For a century Sarawak was the absolute domain of the Brooke dynasty, founded in 1841, when a swashbuckling English adventurer, James Brooke, quelled an insurrection there for the Sultan of Brunei and proclaimed himself Raja...
Last week science promised motorists another postwar boon: synthetic inner tubes that will hold air ten times as long as natural rubber, will need to be inflated only three or four times a year, and will run on nicely for miles after a puncture...
...material that makes this possible is butyl rubber, a synthetic which has been in commercial production for only two years. Standard Oil Development Co.. which developed it, said that butyl has now had a thorough tryout by the Army. has proved its value. Butyl's great virtue is that its carbon molecules have far fewer loose (saturated) ends than natural rubber; hence it has better resistance to chemicals, sunlight and oxygen. When torn, butyl clings together so that when a tenpenny nail was driven into a tube that had run 35,000 miles, the tube stood...