Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first microscope the year (1868) he discovered that he was near-sighted and could not see his German school blackboard. His father, John Jacob Bausch (1830-1926), German immigrant, had founded the firm with $60 borrowed from the late Henry Lomb (1828-1908); had invented the nosepiece and hard rubber frames for spectacles. Young Edward proceeded to build microscopes with other Bausch & Lomb sons, has now produced more than...
...purely Scottish blood, Bruce Lockhart eschewed English universities, finished his education in France and Germany, then went to Malaya as a rubber planter. There he achieved sufficient fame as a footballer, too much notoriety when he took native royalty for a mistress. Timely malaria got him out of that scrape, sent him home to his outraged family. For lack of something better to do he took the examinations for the Foreign Office and passed at the head of the list, much to his surprise. In 1912 he was sent to Moscow as British vice-consul. He liked...
...with a little black bag in his hand, ringing the elevator bell on the tenth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Vanderbilt one afternoon last week was nervous. Everything was in order in the room he had left. Trunks were packed with costumes, photographs, stacks of letters bound with rubber bands brittle with age. There remained to distinguish the hotel room from hundreds of others ready to be abandoned only a photograph of big-chested Enrico Caruso in a white-piped vest and a little bronze head which Caruso had made of himself. The man who waited nervously...
General Tire 6 Rubber Co., always the envy of the rubber industry, reported a $202,353 profit for the fiscal year ended Nov. 30. In the previous year it lost $444,063. This year's profit was after all inventory write-offs and despite a 20% drop in sales to $16,679,000, largely attributed not to a slump in volume of tires sold but to the decline in tire prices. Relatively small, efficient, and under the very personal management of Founder-President William O'Neil, General Tire is the only leading rubber company that had paid back...
Earnest Tsar Boris of Bulgaria put on one day last week a surgeon's white gown and red rubber gloves...