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...years to make a fast buck-nor so many speculators trying to make it. Natural rubber began getting scarce last winter just as booming auto production stepped up the demand for tires. Synthetic rubber production slumped as the coal strike cut the supply of styrene, a vital coal-tar derivative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Elastic Profits | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

According to Crimson Coach Bruch Munro the BLC, which is composed largely of former II men, "comes over every year hoping to knock the tar out of us, but we plan to do the same thing." It should be a good show if the BLC doesn't get run off its feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball, Track, Lacrosse Squads Will Start Home Seasons Today | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

...brighter side, the chorus was excellent in all of its number Of special note was the sailors' singing of "A British Tar" halfway through the first act. Another high point was the triumphal entrance of the Sisters, Cousins, and Aunts...

Author: By Brenton Welling, | Title: H. M. S. Pinafore | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

...just the chance to practice that installs the southern schools as favorites. The three institutions--North Carolina, Duke, and Wake Forest--rank among the best teams in the East. Playing for the Tar Heels, for example, will be Harvie Ward, national intercollegiate champion and probably one of the ten best amateurs in the country...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/30/1950 | See Source »

Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If their sort of painting represented the most vital force in contemporary U.S. art, as some critics had contended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Handful of Fire | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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