Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camp site overlooking northern California's Lake Shasta was cool and quiet, and the C. V. Cadwalla-ders, camped out there, had nothing more on their minds than a restful lunch. Then came a rising sound of motor traffic, a cloud of dust, the rasp of gravel on rubber as four automobiles slid to a stop near by. From the lead car bounded a bulky, shirtsleeved figure who plunged through the manzanita bush like a startled bull moose, thrust a hand at Mr. Cadwallader, announced simply: "I'm Senator Knowland." After five minutes of picture taking and small...
Interior turned over Barton's rubber check to the Justice Department, pondered the fact that now it has no authority to release the land. Meanwhile, Barton's Colorado River Enterprises, Inc. produced a second (cashier's) check-payable only on condition that he get more time to arrange the bond-which Acting Interior Secretary Hatfield Chilson frigidly ignored. At such intransigence, Barton lamented: "If the Indians don't get that land developed, it sure won't be my fault. I've done all I could for 'em. I've done my best...
Last week a rubber-products company, a soft-drink bottling works and the national airline were shut down, bringing the strike total since last January to more than 175. Close to 5,000 employees of the government-owned telephone company voted to strike this week unless wages are boosted. Ranging from five minutes to five months, the strikes cost the country an estimated 6,200,000 man-hours and uncounted millions of dollars in productivity...
Unfriendly Sort. In Vancouver, B.C., Rubber-Check Artist Kenneth Miller, 33, cheerfully greeted a man he thought he recognized, realized too late that his old crony was the police detective assigned...
After lunch (with two martinis) he naps for an hour, putters around in the flower garden (he tends the roses), and reads until he picks up Bernice at the station. After dinner Cozzens goes to his study, "where I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer." Cozzens' sole hobby is a pop record collection, vintage 1920 to 1927-Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman-which he plays by the hour on his hi-fi set. "Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking...