Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago John Speculator was talking hopefully of "dollar wheat." Last week wheat was $1.15 and the new watchword was "dollar corn." Rubber, which sold as low as 3¢ per lb. in 1933, was up last week to a four-year high of 17¢. Silk on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange had the busiest day in months. Cotton hit 14¢ per lb. for the first time since 1930. With few exceptions the raw "things" which the U. S. finds essential to its well-being were in high speculative favor. The number of citizens eager to swap dollars for salable goods...
Schiaparelli. "Of course we don't want pants," cried Elsa Schiaparelli in a speech before Manhattan's Fashion Group last year. "Men are already ugly enough in them without having women wear them." But Mme Schiaparelli gave women practically everything else, including dresses made of cellophane and rubber, collars of china, gadgets designed from harness. One of her best textile designs grew out of some plaster and netting she picked up in a rubbish pile. In her crusade for sharp, dramatic line ("skyscraper silhouet") Mme Schiaparelli persecutes the button with morbid zeal, has substituted all manner of gadgets in place...
They took all that was left of the most notorious killer and robber of 1934 to the Chicago morgue. There they laid his naked corpse out on a rubber slab and the Hearstpapers also laid him out in gruesome front-page newspictures.* In Washington Attorney General Cummings heaved a mighty sigh of relief...
Meanwhile last week other Turkish coast guards picked on Richard Carman Borden, Associate Professor of Public Speaking at New York University, lecturer and researcher in sales psychology. With a collapsible rubber boat Professor Borden and his wife Marie are on a "paddle tour." Last week they were paddling a few miles from Istanbul in the general direction of Greece. A storm came up and they sought shelter on the Turkish shore. "Our only weapon," said Professor Borden afterward, "was a toy pistol to frighten away savage dogs...
...hundred yards from where the Bordens paddled in is a Turkish powder factory. A Turkish sentry strolled up accompanied by a soldier. They collared Professor Borden and took from him $44. The Bordens scuttled to their rubber boat and paddled away. Soon they struck a sand bar and five Turkish soldiers waded out to nab them. The soldiers took the rest of Professor Borden's money, marched them to a guardhouse where they tore off Mrs. Borden's outer clothing...