Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall of Science the visitor will get his first taste of the Fair's keynote- Action. Here the sciences will be demonstrated not by dull charts and lectures, but by experiments actually performed. The layman will see how chemistry transmutes coal, wood, oil, rubber, minerals into paints, dyes, soaps, explosives, paper, food. He will see laid bare the basic mysteries not only of his radio, telephone, refrigerator, automobile but even his own body, in models with beating heart, breathing lungs, circulating blood. A huge steel robot, ten feet high, will point to foods on a table and lecture metallically...
Died. Ernest Hopkinson. 60. vice president of U. S. Rubber Co.. inventor of many a rubber product and processing method; after a six-month illness: in Manhattan. Increasingly popular with textile manufacturers is his latest invention. Lastex, thread with a rubber core which makes cloth that stretches two ways...
That was a new record for John Businessman. Goodyear Tire & Rubber's Paul Weeks Litchlield declared he had "regretfully arrived at the conclusion that a measure of Government control must be introduced. . . . We have failed to take the necessary steps voluntarily so the element of force. Government compulsion, becomes necessary. . . . Our continued decline in employment and purchasing power is leading us into state socialism or complete anarchy." General Electric's Gerard Swope (who. over a year ago. urged industry to do what it may now be forced to do) said: "I repeat that if industry does...
Last week when he looked at the paper Mr. Davis' heart must have stopped in its beat, for the inflation boom had boosted rubber above 4? a pound - from 3½? a week before, from less than 3? a few weeks ago. U. S. Rubber has 100,000 acres of rubber plantations in the Dutch East Indies and Malaya. From millions of trees it collects the milk which it turns into 50,000,000 lb. of rubber a year. A cent-a-pound increase puts $500,000 a year in his company's pocket. What is more...
...boosted the price of raw sugar (duty paid) to 3 3/10? a pound compared to less than 2¾? in February. If his company can make an extra ½? a pound on its annual output of about one billion pounds it will make an extra $5,000,000 profit.* Rubber, sugar, silk, copper, silver, wheat, corn, coffee, meat, hides, wool, cotton, cocoa-each one in a long, long list of commodities last week brought just such startling dreams of profits to manufacturers, traders, producers, to states and to countries in all quarters of the globe...