Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's fire companies were not only a potent political force, like those of New York, but the equivalent of the city's swankest clubs. Lily soon was as ardent a vamp as ever answered a midnight alarm or kept his rubber boots at the head of the bed. She was married about this time to Howard Coit (no relation to Cleveland's or Buffalo's Coits), then the leather-lunged Caller of the old Mining Exchange, but matrimony could not keep Lily out of the fire house. She answered every alarm, smoked, drank and played...
...prices rose 1%, the weight of gold for which the dollar would exchange would be raised 1%. If prices fell 1% the dollar would exchange for 1% less. This would keep the dollar stable in buying power for the average of all commodities. The dollar has to be rubber as to weight or as to value. It cannot have a fixed [gold] weight and also a fixed value. This proposal would give it a fixed value and a rubber weight...
...ideal role for Arlen where his straight-forward masculinity is unrestrained by wing collar or the stare of social dictators. Chester Morris is the prodigal who leaves the farm and "cleans up" in the Chicago Wheat Pit. He does this by the simple expedient of dressing up in rubber coat and hat, walking under a shower bath, and stampeding the Pit by crying. "Rain, rain," thus forcing down the price about ten cents and crowning his bear operations with success. This is accomplished before anyone has the presence of mind to look out the window...
Synthetic Rubber. E. I. du Pont de Nemours &. Co. decided the time was propitious to announce that its synthetic rubber was good enough for all, and cheap enough for some, industrial uses. Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers, research chemist, appeared for the company and said: "Starting with vinylacetylene, a compound made available through the discoveries of Dr. J[ulius] A[rthur] Nieuwland of Notre Dame University, du Pont chemists have synthesized a large number of new compounds closely related to isoprene. At least two of them, chloroprene and bromo-prene, are enormously superior to any other materials as starting points...
...program than the mere infliction of additional taxes upon an already overtaxed community." They proposed that the bankers, the city and the Governor of New York meet to work out a real solution. Lawyer Untermyer. replying for Mayor O'Brien, accepted the proposal. Meantime the Board of Aldermen rubber-stamped Mr. Untermyer's taxes; only the Mayor's signature was needed to put them into effect...