Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dominic Mintola of Toms River, N. J. spent 68? to mail to President Roosevelt a 36-lb. log given him by the local relief agency. Dolee Mintola complained that the wood was swamp gum, "tough as rubber under the ax, exuded more moisture than a water-soaked grapefruit rind" and the pieces were too large for his stove...
There were further reflections on the "gum'ment" and "Franklin De-lah-no Rosy-felt," but as his speech continued Senator Long's reputation for political shrewdness began to become more understandable. With the nation at its loudspeaker eager for another session of name-calling, with every important newspaper in the land primed to print his speech the next morning, Senator Long devoted the first five minutes to his enemies and the remaining 40 to propagandizing his Share-The-Wealth Plan. For his plan to make "every man a king" by limiting personal capital...
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...
...rise to place an objection before the meeting," cried a punctilious Canadian retailer. In shoe shops across the Dominion we have salespeople guilty of a worse offense in that they chew gum while waiting upon customers...
...engines were reversed. Everyone had left his post but Chief Radio Operator Ernest Edwin Dailey. Coolly chewing gum, he sat tapping out the falling wreck's position almost up to the instant it smacked into the waves. Then he jumped, never to be seen again...