Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making the new rate $3.20 against $3.40 yearly. Electric Power & Light Corp. passed second preferred and common dividends despite reported earnings of $9,265,000 for the twelve months ending March 31. Aetna Life Insurance Co. passed its dividend. American News Co. cut its payment in half. General Tire & Rubber passed its preferred payment, as did Associated Telephone & Telegraph, large independent. Another omission was that of Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) ; and shortly afterward Curtis announced a general 10% advertising rate reduction. Gloomy Chicago was cheered by the announcement that the three big Insull companies will...
...relax in. It is the cinema bathroom on a small scale. It has a bath-rail beside the tub for books, cigarets and a tea set. It has a vertical handrail to hold onto while one steps into the tub. There is a sun-ray lamp, a pillowed rubber mat on the floor. There are closets with sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom, not of porcelain which may crack...
...reality the party's new declaration would bring legal beer, wine & spirits remained a matter of opinion, dispute, political contest. The fact in hand was that the Chicago convention gave Wets the substance of a change, Drys the shadow of kind words. The party had pulled on rubber boots to pussyfoot its way through the campaign. Whether this was possible or impossible only Election Day would show...
Flexible Resin. Since Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite from carbolic acid & formaldehyde and demonstrated how useful and profitable such artificial resins may be, a new division of plastics has developed in chemistry. New product is "glyptal," a flexible material which /. G. E. Wright declared is better than rubber or leather for printing machine rollers. It can be used for lithographic rolls and blankets, oil-proof gaskets, floor coverings, special sheetings for the balloonets of dirigibles, gasoline and oil hose, motor-mountings, tooth brushes...
...yacht steamed slowly up Manhattan's East River into Long Island Sound, most of his upper left jaw and part of his palate were cut away. Five days later President Cleveland was able to walk ashore when the Oneida docked at his Massachusetts summer home. A vulcanized rubber jaw was inserted, his speech was not affected, Wall Street never knew. Not until 1917 did Surgeon Keen publish the story...