Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syringes in use there. Needles to fit eventually arrived-but not until hundreds of victims had died of cholera. Since then, the organization, working through scores of national standards groups, has approved 58 worldwide standards for everything from musical pitch to the abrasion resistance of rubber...
...solution was the famed JATO rocket-booster unit. The only trouble was that the company lacked the capital and the production know-how to follow through on its big military contracts. For those it turned to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., which poured $4,000,000 into the tiny, brainy company (in return for 50% stock ownership) and installed Dan Kimball, then serving as General Tire's director of Government operations, as boss in 1945. In short order Aerojet was making good on its contracts, at one point hit production of 25,000 JATO units monthly...
...Kiel Professor Otto Diels) of the 1950 Nobel Prize in chemistry; of a liver ailment; in Cologne, West Germany. The two scientists were honored for discovering in the '20s the diene synthesis of organic compounds, an advance that helped accelerate the development of synthetic dyes, textiles, plastics and rubber...
...Rubber-Walled Cell. Later a wealthy woman called "L" became O'Connor's mistress and patroness, bought him erector sets, clockwork trains, motorcars, liquor, and phonograph records ("Tchaikovsky for ... relishing misery . . . Stravinsky for hangovers"). All the while, she "walked by "my side, never-ceasing in her disciple's adoration." But by the time the two of them had spent all "L's" capital, she had reached the stage where she "complained of Indians staring at her" and attacked O'Connor with chopper, razor blades and cutlery. Soon, "L" was tucked away "in a rubber-walled...
Gurgled Defiance. No diver till he took the job. Bridges has quickly become the world's best-known underwater actor, picks up tidy extra income on his merchandising tie-in with a rubber company that makes "Mike Nelson" flippers, masks, snorkels and rubber boats. His 52 sponsors across the U.S. are elated with Sea Hunt's showing, will doubtless keep Bridges going off the deep end next year. He will continue to expose marine-insurance frauds, nab below-surface smugglers of aliens, rescue other hapless souls trapped in the deep, cut short careers of skindiving robbers who prey...