Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nerofilm). A little German girl dawdling home from school is spoken to by a pudgy, rubber-faced young man; he admires the ball she is bouncing and, whistling a snatch from Peer Gynt in a strange, convulsive way, buys her a funny balloon. Presently you see the ball rolling out of a clump of bushes, the balloon, caught in telegraph wires, bobbing crazily in the wind...
Died. William C. State, 62, consulting engineer of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., inventor of a tire-building machine, builder of Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock; of complications following three months' illness; in Akron...
...that sold well in Dry States until Prohibition actually arrived and 'legging began), through Prohibition itself with the necessity of trying to make money out of near-beer, malt syrup, and back to Repeal. Meantime he has carried on the Busch tradition of generosity (generosity is made of rubber: one of his servants died in 1929 and left him $19,000). Somewhat high-eyebrowed by some of St. Louis' more snobbish socialites, the Busches never got into the St. Louis Country Club, but started their own Bridle Spur Hunt Club which developed a swankier waiting list. August...
...Damon knew that 70% of airplane noise comes from the propellers after tip speed passes 850 ft. per second. He began by gearing down the Condor's three-bladed propellers so that at cruising speed, tip speed does not exceed 670 ft. per second. Next he insulated with rubber the nine attaching bolts of each Cyclone motor. He then proceeded to the problem of the fuselage...
...Condor's entire cabin compartment has been sound-proofed with wood and Kapok fibre so that it comes in direct contact at no point with the surrounding fuselage. Windows have been set in rubber, walls and ceiling are upholstered. It was found that arrangement of material in sound insulation is more important than the material itself. The Condor's cabin compartment is vaulted...