Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deficiencies. Though meetings of the Supreme Soviet usually dully rubber-stamp economic plans and decrees, February is becoming a newsworthy month in Communist Russia. It was at a February Supreme Soviet meeting two years ago that Georgy Malenkov confessed to mismanagement, and dramatically resigned his premiership. It was also in February, one year ago at the 20th Party Congress, that Khrushchev opened the Pandora's box of Stalin's crimes...
...more conventional nightclub did a roaring business. The expensive perfume and lingerie shops that catered to rich French colonists and their ladies have been replaced with more modest Vietnamese shops selling sewing machines. Even the French have taken heart. This year, for the first time in ten years, French rubber planters put out new trees. A French-financed hotel, planned for three stories, has already risen to seven...
...outlet off an extension cord in the hospital emergency room, stripped the insulation off the ends of the wires and plugged the other end into the ordinary house current. Wearing rubber gloves, he touched the wires to opposite sides of Fruehling's heart. Twice the shock failed to work. Dr. Riegel then wrapped each wire around the base of a hypodermic needle and plunged the needles into the heart muscle-where they made a sizzling sound. Under this heroic stimulus, Fruehling's heart resumed its natural beat. This week he will be able to go home...
Raisz is often called upon to undertake special projects. The familiar map of Harvard, for instance, is his work. Last year he did a relief globe of the Earth, six feet in diameter, which he carved from plaster of Paris. It is now being commercially manufactured from rubber. His own particular interest is the "land-type" map, a colored version of the landform. The colors, however, do not represent different heights--they indicate the vegetation and cultivation of the land. This comes closest, he says, to a "true portrait of the face of Mother Earth...
...Raymond C. (for Christy) Firestone, 48, was elected president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the world's second largest rubber firm (just behind Goodyear), succeeding Lee R. Jackson. 65, who moves into a newly created position as vice chairman of the board. Ray Firestone, fourth son of Company Founder Harvey S. Firestone (brother Harvey Jr. is Firestone's board chairman and chief executive officer), started with Firestone as a gas-station attendant in California after graduating from Princeton...