Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropped 47,000,000 lb. Copper, restricted by NRA price controls, had been inactive for months, as had tin, affected by cartels abroad. Trading in silver futures slumped off three weeks ago when the Silver Purchase Act slapped a 50% tax on the profits of silver speculators. Only rubber continued to be active. Last week the Commodity Exchange, casting about for other staples in which its 950 members could do business, established a futures market for lead pigs and zinc slabs, heretofore on a spot basis...
Manhattan's historic Hanover Square has been a trading place for staples ever since clipper ships poked their prows across its cobblestones in the time of George I. The Commodity Exchange was formed there in May 1933 by a merger of the Rubber, Silk, Metals and Hide Exchanges. All four had been sponsored by the same group of commodity traders? Francis Robinson Henderson, who made and lost fortunes in rubber; Lawyer Julius B. Baer; Jerome Chester Cuppia, partner in E. A. Pierce & Co.; and Jerome Lewine, partner in H. Hentz & Co. A fifth venture, the Burlap & Jute Exchange...
...Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, Scot Willis McPhee left his house bright & early one morning bent on swapping his rusty 40.40 rifle for what he could get. Dark & late that night Scot Willis McPhee returned with a Mauser rifle, an eight-day clock, a pair of rubber boots, a yellow cat, a goat great with...
...trial. There it split physically as it had long been split emotionally, Livingston supporters lining up on one side of the courtroom, Smith supporters on the other. Everybody had a fine time. Miss Julia Smith cracked back at attorneys, insisted on standing up to testify, brandished a rubber at a photographer. Had she really accused Rector Livingston of misappropriating the money? "Mercy, mercy no!" All she had said was that some church money had been "diverted." By whom? Why, she had never said. Miss Nellie Prietzel and five other parishioners said she had. Six others said...
Connecticut Yankees pitched into the Battle of Fredericksburg under stalwart Brigadier General Wilhelm Heine. Last week the denizens of Manhattan's cloak and suit district turned out with rubber razzberries and flaunting banners, to welcome the General's famed grandson. Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl came steaming in on the Europa with the reputation of being Adolf Hitler's strapping, eagle-browed soul mate. "Down with Hitler and his beast Hanfstaengl!" screamed swarthy members of the crowd of 1,500. "Ship the Hitler agent back! Down with Hanfstaengl...