Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rubber Year. A sprawling giant is U. S. Rubber Co. which makes rubber in Sumatra, tires in Detroit, footwear in Naugatuck. machine belts in Passaic, hot water bottles in Providence. Tires are the principal product, but its salesmen will accept orders for engravers' gum and fruit jar rubbers. It has so many subsidiaries that most statistical services do not bother to list them all. Last week there was hardly a stir when U. S. Rubber announced that it had dropped 16 subsidiaries last year, was preparing to drop 15 more, bringing the total down to 31. Simultaneously President Francis...
...TIME, Feb. 25, all credit to Giant Eastman Kodak. But when the mouse outstrips the lion, isn't it TIME-worthy? In 1934 Universal, with its novel Univex, brain child of O. W. Githens and J. J. Shapiro, made and sold more cameras than any other manufacturer in the world, Eastman included. With its new super-lightweight folding vest pocket camera, made of aluminum and with "airflow lines" and retailing for an even dollar, Universal is set to produce 50,000 cameras a day this year...
...usual in the county-fair and side-show cinema, the cast of Carnival includes that familiar breakfast set of human oddities (midgets, bearded lady, fat woman, giant, snake-charmer) who now make a better living by impersonating freaks in pictures than they used to make by really traveling with the circus. The plot concerns the efforts of a widowed puppeteer (Tracy) and his male assistant (Jimmy Durante) to prevent welfare agencies from taking possession of his child; the efforts of his female assistant (Sally Eilers) to make him see that this can easily be accomplished by a second marriage...
Last week President Roosevelt's NIRB committee, headed by Economic Adviser Leon Henderson, made public its report on conditions in the automobile industry. It did not mention Fisher Body's 18 giant presses but had many another marvel of technological advance to reveal. Ex- amples...
Crispus Attucks, a giant mulatto, bobbed up as hero of the "Boston Massacre" (1770), was killed with four others in a skirmish of sailors against British soldiers...