Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wild Cheers. Stated purpose of the election is to choose 1,302 deputies for the two houses of the Supreme Soviet, theoretically the "highest body of state power." Actually it is a huge rubber stamp assembly which meets twice a year fof about ten days and shouts assent to measures put through by Russia's bosses; there is no record of any dissenting vote ever having been cast in the Supreme Soviet...
...fire trucks, replete with water pumps, hard rubber tires, 45 volunteer smoke-eaters and a lot of good times composed the working assets of the colorful, if not so vital University Auxiliary Fire Department, supported by the administration during the wartime years...
...Knox hook and ladder rig, the noble warrior of the department, was bought from a Boston fire station and rushed to the Harvard division to become the workhorse of the University force. The Knox, featuring solid rubber tires and a built-in water pump, was by far the finest engine Harvard had ever owned...
Like many another U.S. businessman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s Chairman Paul W. Litchfield was eager to start producing in Europe's prized hard-currency markets. The Netherlands was out of the question, since Litchfield's arch rival, Goodrich, already had a plant there. So was Belgium, which has two tire plants of its own. With the doleful expression of a jilted suitor, Rubberman Litchfield turned his eyes to the tiny (pop. 300,000) Grand Duchy of Luxembourg...
...currencies instead of dollars-and thus help conserve scarce continental dollars. Furthermore, they argued, a Goodyear plant would be healthy for the Benelux economy, giving a new source of employment. And local revenues would increase still further when Goodyear's plant started buying such Benelux raw materials as rubber from the Belgian Congo and the former Netherlands East Indies, and rayon and cotton cord from Belgium and The Netherlands. Another potent argument was the undisclosed sum Goodyear offered for a 45-acre site 18 miles north of Luxembourg City, the duchy's capital. The land belonged to Grand...