Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cellulose and cellulose derivatives in certain ways. It can be mixed with them, as in plastics. It resists water, decay and flames, has advantages as an adhesive, in sizing paper and textiles, and in finishing leather. Chemist Morris Omansky, Boston consultant, reports zein useful as a reinforcing compound for rubber manufacture, arid Dr. Barnard thinks the protein substance might be turned into artificial silk...
Colleagues, including Yale's reclusive, ape-observing Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, tried to placate Professor Kornhauser. Intruded Psychological Corp.'s Dr. Henry Charles Link, who has worked for Winchester Repeating Arms Co., U. S. Rubber Co., Lord & Taylor and Gimbel Bros.: "We first try to find out what the consumer wants and then give it to him." Concluded Professor Harold Ernest Burtt of Ohio State University: "When two brands of a certain product are equally good, I think we are justified in taking a fee for telling the sponsors of one of the two how to sell...
Four amateur bullfighters on roller skates: four fights with two-year-old calves wearing rubber shoes to enable them to run on a board skating rink; in the El Toreo Bullring, Mexico City...
...formations zooming out of the mist, circling over parks and department store roofs where anti-aircraft guns spat upward. Suddenly the street blossomed with colored vapors, to indicate that poison gas and incendiary bombs had been dropped. He coughed in good earnest as a smoke screen smelling like burning rubber billowed down on him. Suddenly the street was streaked with cars, motorcycles and bicycles scudding past, carrying members of youth organizations, official and semiofficial. Sweating in khaki sun-helmets and heavy khaki coats, they went into action shouting at traffic, patrolling the street to see that Sato had his pails...
...That issue grows directly out of the National Recovery Act where, written into law, is Labor's right to organize and bargain collectively. How it is to exercise this privilege is one of the toughest questions put up to General Johnson. The great "open shop" manufacturers of steel, rubber and automobiles have their answer: company unions. The American Federation of Labor has its answer: national unions. Therein still lies the biggest germ of dissension in the whole NRA program. For the A. F. of L. the National Recovery Act was a windfall second only to the World...