Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command's unofficial permission to put to the jocular test the knowledge and alertness of high Soviet bureaucrats. They invented a fanciful Academy of Plans for Transcosmic Sciences and a subsidiary Trust for the Exploitation of Meteoric Iron. But they needed that high sign of Soviet officialdom, a rubber stamp. So they advertised that they had lost their rubber stamp and promptly a bureaucrat gave them permission to have one made...
Under the sign of their rubber stamp Crocodile editors began to write the heads of Soviet iron-using trusts that a great meteorite, rich in iron, aluminum and even platinum, was due to drop soon near a non-existent city in Kazakstan. They intended, they said, to be on the spot. Their Trust was open for iron orders. Man after head man swallowed the bait, wrote back for details which the editors gleefully supplied as their sole stock-in-trade. Finally even the great Scrap Iron Trust gave them an order on the Trust's Kazakstan representative...
...stuff, Mr. Caturani! Once again, Harvard CRIMSON, your Dramatie Editor crashes through for the rubber toothpick. His review of "Her Lips Retray" has an imaginative quality rarely seen nowadays...
...minutes later he sat at the same desk with the same bill before him. Secretary Morgenthau, Governor Black of the Federal Reserve, Professor George ("Rubber Dollar") Warren, Governor Harrison of the New York Reserve Bank and Professor James Harvey Rogers looked gravely on. Cameras clicked and newsreel men cranked as the President made motions with a pen. Thus did the U. S. get pictures of what the signing of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 did not look like...
James Bryant Conant is a lineal descendant of Roger Conant, founder of Salem, Mass., and of Plymouth Colony's Governor William Bradford. A New Englander to the core, he loves New England and Harvard. In 1915 an Ohio rubber company offered him the top post in its research division. Said Graduate Student Conant, 22: "I'm going to be married and the kind of woman I'd marry wouldn't live in Ohio. If she would I wouldn't marry...