Word: productions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paying dealers "push money" or "spiffs" (gratuities to promote one manufacturer's product over others...
Five years ago Elsy Florence Eva Borders, London housewife, was enraged when her new house, like many another product of Britain's depression building boom, began to leak, creak and crumble. Last year she stopped making mortgage payments to the building society, and when the society sued, personally fought Britain's legal heavyweights to a standstill. "Portia" Borders became the heroine of thousands of Britons who pay high rents for grimy kennels or find their shiny new houses falling apart. Many of them have been making it tough for landlords as increasing numbers of "Tenants' Defence Leagues...
...Mussolini children* Edda is easily the most outstanding in ability, personality, intelligence. This fact tends to support the long-current story that she is not the daughter of Donna Rachele but rather the product of a grande passion of Benito Mussolini with a Russian woman Socialist in the days when he was a powerless, ranting radical...
...Glamor Girl, ended her debutante year and went off to summer in the Adirondacks, Stork Club Pressagent Chic Farmer, who picked her for the post, cast about for her 1939-40 successor. His best bet: tall, blonde, nightclubbing, 17-year-old Mary A. Steele, a product of Miss Chapin's finishing school and the daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele. Mused Publicist Farmer: "She has beautiful teeth...
Butadiene rubber itself is not new. It is the same in composition as the noisily touted German synthetic rubber called "Buna." But the German product is made from acetylene (a product of limestone and coal) in five complicated stages and its price is around 60? a pound. Inventor Egloff estimates that his butadiene rubber, if produced in any quantity, can be made to sell for less than 20? a pound. E. I.. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s famed chlorine-containing synthetic rubber (TIME, May 6, 1935), now called "neoprene," is probably superior to butadiene rubber in some...