Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems. For one thing, the nine-man Senate Office Building Commission had ordered two bronze plaques (total cost: $5,000), emblazoned with commission members' names, to be placed at each entrance. Worse, Douglas was alarmed at a $150,000 appropriation for new carpeting to cover the $100,000 rubber tile flooring. The committee explained that Government girls kept slipping on the tiles (TIME, May 11), rounded up a group of supporters who were promptly labeled "carpet-backers." Countered Douglas in the Senate last week: How about the 600 office doors that would have to be removed and shaved down...
...paved highway. The capital of Monrovia was a shanty town with no hotel, no telephone system, no restaurant, and not a single taxi. Electricity burned feebly two hours at night, the city had no running-water system at all, and the whole country was dependent on the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and its vast (100,000 acres) rubber concession. Elsewhere in Africa, schools, roads and hospitals were being built, but Liberia, as one Liberian diplomat wryly explained, "had not had the benefits of colonialism...
...attracted more than $120 million in foreign capital. The Italians are building roads, the West Germans are helping to develop a new port along the southern coast, and the Israelis are putting up a new hospital, hotel, treasury building and executive mansion. Goodrich is planting 3,000 acres of rubber trees, and Liberia's own rubber crop now equals that of Firestone...
...women and wine, the Sultan brilliantly managed Johore, a jungle state the size of New Jersey with a population of nearly a million Malays, Indians and Chinese. When he took power in 1895 on the death of his father, the Sultan shifted the economy from opium and gambling to rubber. With other Malay states, Johore now produces one-third of the world's natural rubber. He angrily opposed self-rule for Malaya, outraged local nationalists by snapping: "It is all very well to clamor for independence, but where are your warships, your planes and your army to withstand aggression...
...Jack Duluoz invents (and then sees, fearfully, in every dark doorway), gets from place to place by grooking. Dr. Sax plays poker incessantly, has a high, fiendish laugh ("Mwee hee ha ha ha"). And when his stalking of the evil Great World Snake makes it necessary, he pulls a rubber boat out of his slouch hat, pumps it up and paddles across the Merrimack...