Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gusty south wind from Long Island Sound lashed rain into the Yale Bowl by the cloudful. The 50,000 people (who contributed only $2,315 to solicitors for an unemployment fund) kept away from the field till the last minute and then piled into the Bowl wearing oilskins, rubber boots, blankets, with newspapers folded around their necks for scarves and wrapped around their hats. The storm made it all the more likely that. like most Harvard-Yale games, this one. between two teams with almost equally erratic records, would be decided by a stroke of fortune...
...animosity between the Blue & Grey made news in the East. In the South there has been reciprocal licensing trouble before. The Highway Users Conference, whose membership includes rubber, petroleum and motor interests as well as truck operators, lays the whole license ruction at the doors of railway lobbyists in State Legislatures. Last week, while the Pennsylvania-New Jersey feud went on, a joint committee of railroad presidents under President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania met in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station with motor transport executives under the leadership of Vice President Alfred Harris Swayne of General Motors. The conferees...
...quit the cinema and live with her; in Manhattan. Mrs. Wayne's countersuit to void the contract was denied by the New York Supreme Court, appealed. Honored. George Oenslager, B. F. Goodrich Co. technical adviser, by the Perkins Medal (high U. S. chemistry award) for research in rubber chemistry; University of Illinois Chemistry Professor George Lindenberg Clark, by the Grasselli Medal, for X-ray research in chemistry; General Electric Co.'s Engineer Frank M. Starr, by the $500 Alfred Noble Prize,* for a paper on "Equivalent Circuits...
...Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem the flood of letters. Most signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Tom Mooney, Edward of Wales, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, "One-Eye" Connelly, John Davison Rockefeller...
...later (1905) became the dare-devil aeronaut of Chicago's "White City" amusement park. His eyes are still red and watery from a 1910 crash which all but cost him his sight. With him was Roy Knabenshue who barnstormed for years with Capt. Wild in their dangerous little "rubber cows" (small dirigibles...