Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There she squirmed, squinted at her nurses, swallowed milk through an eyedropper. Her heart beat regularly, and when she cried it bounced up & down on her chest like a tiny red rubber ball. Dr. Jesus Celius of the University of Santo Tomas refused to consider an operation to place her heart inside her chest. Reason: its aorta (main artery) would have to be shut off during the operation. Last week, after living seven days, little Maria Corazon died of pneumonia...
...surgeon would dare operate without rubber gloves. Sterilized, they protect patients from infection, protect the surgeon from accidental cuts and infection from patients. But so serious is Germany's rubber shortage that last week, in a Munich medical journal, patriotic Surgeon Karl Faber advised his colleagues to "wash their hands several minutes longer in order to economize on [dispense with] valuable rubber gloves." Other warlike economies suggested by Dr. Faber: 1) substitution of cloth gloves for rubber except in major operations; 2) laundering of bloody bandages and compresses which are ordinarily thrown away; 3) use of small-sized towels...
...while the U. S. was trying to win World War I, the Du Ponts set a young engineer, Francis Breese Davis Jr., to building the world's No. 1 guncotton plant at Hopewell, Va. Eleven years ago the Du Ponts acquired control of the sick U. S. Rubber Co., the following year put dependable Organizer Davis in to explode a case of profit-making dynamite under it. Davis quickly found out where to plant the charge. Mass production methods had not been perfected in the $900,000,000 rubber industry. As he said afterwards, "U. S. was making tires...
...rubber industry in 1939 is no longer in the age of Cheops. It is quite ready to mass-produce upwards of 65,000,000 tires a year, if and when full production comes back. Its complaint is that while it is set up to serve an expanding economy, the public is now buying at the rate of about 50,000,000 tires a year. In the first half of 1939, the industry sold 9,217,000 tires at little enough profit to the hard-bargaining auto companies, and 17,188,000 tires at a better markup to the public. Last...
Measure of the technological progress of U. S. rubber engineering is the difference between a 1926 (4.40 by 21) tire and a 1938 (6.00 by 16) tire: model 1926 sold for $24, ran an average of about 14,000 miles, costing the average U. S. car owner 1.69 mills a mile; model 1938 sold for $19, ran an average of almost 27,000 miles, cost the average U. S. car owner only .73 mills a mile. The auto industry has not stood still, but it has not any better record...