Word: crude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York-the Consolidated Stock Exchange. This organization developed in comparatively recent years by the merging of several small security exchanges with the one time Petroleum Exchange. The latter had, like other commodity exchanges, been granted the use of a New York Stock Exchange ticker When the legitimate business in crude oil upon it came to an end, and the business in mainly rubbish shares proved insufficient as a source of income, its members resorted to the expedient of trading on the " Big Board " quotations...
...example, ought to be read--forcibly or otherwise--to every young "writer" or "literary man" or "thinker" under twenty-five years of age. It contains some things we have wanted to say ourself for a long time, but have never quite dared to for fear of being called crude. "An Oxford Symbol"--we may as well tell you beforehand that it is a corkscrew--is done in the best Morley style; Dame Quickly and Glssing add their bit; and the chapter on "Sir Kenelm Digby" is a rare delight, with its recipes and its appreciation of old quaintness. . We should...
...again. A new historical drama by John Drinkwater. Oliver Cromwell, has been put on at, His Majesty's, concerning which opinions differ, except as to the admittedly great histronic merits of the cast. Also we hear that a drama called, The Outsider offers an original melodramatic idea in a crude but powerful...
...addition to perfecting a new process for making and vulcanizing cord tires, Chairman C. B. Seger of the U. S. Rubber Co. announced a new and superior method of obtaining crude rubber itself for general purposes...
Formerly all crude rubber was obtained from the rubber trees by coagulating the sap or " latex" with either smoke or chemicals; inevitably this method left impurities in the product, and sometimes when acids were employed valuable qualities of the original latex were destroyed. But by the new process, the latex is sprayed into a snow-white mist which, placed in contact with superheated air, is deprived of its water, but nothing else. Thus " sprayed rubber" is absolutely pure virgin rubber, remains dry indefinitely, is much stronger than ordinary "crude rubber " and-unlike the latter-is completely uniform in quality...