Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Hoover's monument, the new Department of Commerce Building, both phases of the Recovery Act are being administered. Last week movers were cluttering up its halls with furniture from the offices of the moribund R. F. C. Pert young clerks by the score were inking up rubber stamps and, like hungry buzzards, Congressmen had already scented out the headquarters of the government's newest and grandest handout...
Wage increases were taking place all over the country. In Akron, where Newton Diehl Baker was trying to bring harmony to the embattled rubber industry, Goodyear, Firestone. General. Mohawk all announced 10% raises. Seiberling upped pay 5%. The Pittsburgh Coal Co. was paying 10% more to 8,000 workers. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest cotton textile manufacturer, announced a 15% raise at Manchester, N. H. Other textile mills at Dallas, Gadsden, Ala., Lawrence, Mass., Rockville, Conn, swung into line. Canning factories in Florida, a Philadelphia handbag maker, a Suffolk, Va., candy company, upped pay. Sears, Roebuck rescinded a 10% salary...
...fifteen, while in the Roxbury School, he was giving shows for the neighborhood boys, billing himself as "Young Edison" and charging admission. He turned water into wine, made smells and explosions, and devoted the proceeds to buying new laboratory equipment. In 1915, after he had graduated from Harvard, a rubber company wanted him to be head of a research laboratory in Ohio. He visited their plant and then told them off. "I'm going to be married," he said, "and the kind of woman I'd marry wouldn't live in Ohio. If she did, I wouldn't marry...
...home town; here it shows him how they are made. In General Motors' $1,000,000 assembly plant a Fairgoer may order his Chevrolet in the morning, see it put together during the day, drive off in it at evening. He may watch Firestone turn crude rubber and chemicals into finished automobile tires, one every ten minutes. Phoenix Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases of breakfast food per hour. Only inactive spot will be the airy, peaceful TIME-FORTUNE building, carefully designed as "A Place...
...every raise,, whether it affected ten or 10,000, the Press thumped and boomed on its big bass drum.† Errett Lobban Cord, whose companies have never been noted for high wages, upped all workers in his automobile and aviation units 5%. Up 12½% went all Goodyear Tire & Rubber employes. Up 10% went wages in George E. Rogers & Co., Pittsburgh wholesale hay & grain dealers. The upping movement undoubtedly spread far & wide last week, but three things the Press did not report were: 1) What percentage of all U. S. workers received raises. 2) what the wages were before...