Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, the Speaker's death meant more than the loss of a public servant. It meant the loss of the servant of the New Deal who had the job of keeping a rubber-stamp Congress stamping confirmation on the New Deal's desires. Some questioned the efficiency but none the loyalty of Representative Rainey as stamp handler. These pointed out that he had been given a more stamp-like Congress than any Speaker in recent years and yet he had not prevented the overriding of the President's Veterans veto...
...teacher draws, traces, types or writes a lesson on a stencil. Fitting it to what resembles a big curved rubber stamp, she quickly turns out a batch of lesson sheets for the class, on the Multistamp...
...Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas is a stocky, blue-eyed Briton with a bristly mustache and a legendary reputation as an economic seer. Unhallowed by academic standing, he published Germany and Her Debts in 1923, a forecast of the European currency debacle. In 1926 it was The Coming Collapse in Rubber, about the same time the Stevenson restriction plan smashed and rubber started its long slide from $1.04 to 3¢ per lb. In 1931 The Coming Rise in Gold Shares was followed two days after Britain took sterling off gold by The Course of the Coming Boom [in Britain]. Just after...
...terms of gold they have been climbing for eight months) are not so questionable. The foreign trade of Brazil and a half dozen other South and Central American republics is almost wholly dependent on coffee, now selling at 9½¢ against a Depression low of 5¼¢. When rubber jumps from 10¢ per lb. to 17¢ as it has in the past six months, five times five million souls throughout British Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When cocoa rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native...
...stretch are not the same thing though they were launched simultaneously. The two-way stretch is purely a matter of weaving elastic threads up & down and across the corset so that the garment "gives" with every movement of the body. Lastex, made of latex, the pure essence of rubber and tougher than its compounds, was more practical than the old rubber because it did not lose its elasticity despite long wear and frequent laundering. Thus the two-way stretch allowed corseted women to move about with freedom; the Lastex, carefully moulding the figure, kept the corset fitted snugly...