Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circled in an open cockpit biplane. In line of duty he was taking notes on the height and thickness of cloud layers, ice forming conditions, the direction and violence of the wind (80 m.p.h. that morning). His chief work was being done inside a little streamlined box strung on rubber cords between the outer struts of his right wing. In it, human hairs squeezed of oil and moisture were taking in the atmosphere's moisture; a vacuum box was taking its pressure; a bimetallic strip contracting at two different rates in the 4°-below-zero cold was taking...
Louis John Taber (National Grange)- "Agriculture is suffering from iron debts and rubber money...
...Mclntyre Porcupine Mines and Charles McCrea, Ontario's Minister of Mines. During the inspection tour Mr. Brush got lost for a while in a deep gallery. At a dinner given in a curling rink, Mr. Bickell introduced a miner quartet, grimy, sweat-streaked, dressed in their working clothes: rubber coats, boots, breeches, helmets...
...spread quickly throughout the city. By evening tire prices had been slashed as much as 56%. All dealers did a roaring but highly unprofitable business as private owners and truck fleet operators jammed in to buy tires for the next two or three years. Next day the big Akron rubber companies wired stern orders for the skirmish to cease. Back up went Cleveland's tire prices even faster than they had come down...
Last week not a small dealer but Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., one of the ''Big Four," slashed list prices 5% to 10%. It was the opening salvo of another major price war for the already war-ravished tire industry. The reason given was, as usual, the fact that the mail order houses had cut first in their spring & summer catalogs, out last month. Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber and smaller Seiberling met the cut but only after cursing Firestone for upsetting the applecart once again...