Word: nonskid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nonskid coat hanger on which trousers will not bunch up by sliding...
...further payments boosted the stock to $115 on the New York Stock Exchange. Holding 52,799 shares of Chain common, as well as 325 shares of its preferred, President Walter B. Lashar was well pleased with the dividend declaration. Most famed product of American Chain is the Weed nonskid automobile tire chain. Weeds, however, were not invented by Mr. Lashar but by Hiram Weed of Canastota, N. Y. In the early 1900's Mr. Weed bought his chain from a small chain company, of which Mr. Lashar was sales manager. In 1915 Mr. Lashar, backed by William T. Morris...
...came through a pounding by nine inches of rain without visible effect. Developed by Cloyd Delson Looker, research director of International Salt Co., and Heinrich Ries, Cornell University geologist, the treatment makes clay hard like concrete, retards evaporation so that the surface remains moist and firm, provides an almost nonskid track. The cost per mile ($1,200) is about a third that of asphalt, one-twentieth that of concrete...