Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unhappy or not, the Portuguese voted all 120 hand-picked candidates of Salazar's National Union into the rubber-stamp National Assembly. In Braga the opposition got, the government said, only 5,170 votes to 55,240 for Salazar's men. Its 40 days of "freedom" over, the opposition went back underground, and Salazar, who considers democracy a "hopeless system," went back to work on his plan to fashion Portugal, a loyal member of NATO, into a truly corporative state, unhampered by any elective bodies...
...Menderes' reckless extravagance had only created economic chaos, that foreigners now refuse to ship Turkey even vital medicines without cash on the barrelhead, that the only thing Turkey has plenty of is yok (nothing). They complained that Menderes had suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were festive rather than bitter, and wonderfully reminiscent of U.S. campaign rallies except that vendors hawked raisin cakes instead of hot dogs, and the music was supplied...
...difference between a good or a great year for U.S. business in 1958. One out of every seven U.S. workers-10.3 million in all-is dependent in some way on the auto industry. It consumes 22% of the nation's steel, 13.6% of its nickel, 62% of its rubber for tires alone, 36% of its annual radio production. A boom in autos is a boom for scores of other industries...
Until he was 27, Walker earned his living mainly by playing professional football, studied art and did commercial work on the side. He was a semipro at 15, a $40-a-week halfback on Goodyear Tire & Rubber's team at 25, later played for the Cleveland Panthers under the late great Jim Thorpe. About all Walker got out of it was a mashed nose (later straightened) and a fistful of broken fingers. Walker decided to quit and try art fulltime. "I wanted to keep my hands and my head in one piece, and not become a bum like...
...fact that such a program as "The Firestone Hour" is pressured by NBC to relinquish a popular program time because of low viewer appeal, is an indication of the dilemma in which media executives find themselves. Luckily for those who like classical music, the Firestone Rubber Company's advertising is largely institutional and low-pressure; this and the loyalty of its viewers insured that it would be kept in its Monday night spot...