Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been trained to push. Monkey Baker, a graduate of the Naval Aviation School of Medicine at Pensacola, was a fluffy South American squirrel-monkey weighing only 11 oz. Wearing a tiny helmet, she rode in a smaller cylindrical capsule and lay on a molded bed of silicone rubber covered for her comfort with a thin mattress of rubber foam...
...real trouble with Congress, says Burnham, is that it is too weak. There is a danger that it will be reduced to a ceremonial rubber stamp, as the Roman Senate was under the Caesars. If that happens, he warns, the U.S. will lose a solid bulwark of liberty...
...charging high prices for the gas (competing fuel oil must pay 24% taxes against his 14.8%), Mattei has some flashy results to show: he has accumulated huge sums for oil exploration, owns pipelines, a tanker fleet, a spanking new synthetic rubber and fertilizer plant, and a string of thousands of bright yellow filling stations across Italy. He operates eight motels and is building nine more. He is also at work on an $80 million nuclear-power plant...
...airtight compartments. Each will be equipped with miniature machines and filled with helium to prevent spontaneous combustion. The ingots of plutonium, about the size of a matchbox, will be handled by remote control, or through the 1,576 "glove ports," where the workers put their hands into long rubber gloves fitted to holes in the glass viewing panels...
...What the U.S. could expect in the future and what might well send Wall Street's stock market higher still was contained in the predictions of industry's executives. Ford Vice President Charles R. Beacham predicted that auto sales in 1959 would top 1958 by 40%. U.S. Rubber General Sales Manager Herbert D. Smith predicted record sales of 94.5 million tires this year for the replacement market, to say nothing of the 29 million tires that go on new cars...