Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons, about 800.000 more than expected. Copper sold at 6? for export, a record low, while domestic sellers offered it at 6¼, equal to the bottom price, and one offered to throw in 50 shares of Anaconda or Kennecott with each 1,000-ton purchase. Rubber (of which there is reputedly a 16-month supply in the U. S.) plunged through its old low of 4.1^ per Ib., when the February delivery sold...
...attitude toward the industry of stock promotion it is slightly less informative than farcical. Turkish baths restore William Powell, discovered drunk in a ginmill, to a condition in which he is fit to undertake the organization of a campaign to sell stock in a company for making rubber out of sewage. Vastly successful at this enterprise, he is presently discomforted to learn that the inventor, upon whose formulas the company's production plans depend, has disappeared. He is even more discomforted when the inventor reappears and proves himself to be a lunatic. While manipulating his concern, Powell is harassed...
When a company shows two consecutive deficits of $45 and $38 on its first preferred stock, it is about time for that company to retire. Fisk Rubber Co. bondholders had some such idea in January 1931, when they threw the company into receivership after it failed to pay off an $8,000,000 note. Most people thought the last had been heard of Fisk...
When the United States Rubber Company abandoned its efforts to educate the nation in its local history, the mightiest of the roadside Titans disappeared. Perhaps, however, having given this generation its degree in Indian nomenclature and the battles of King Philip's War, the Company is only waiting for fresh undergraduates in its highway university. This possibility, and the failure of their companies to follow a worthy example, have lead to attempts in New York State to curtail bill-board advertising through legislation prohibiting advertising in certain places and taxing it heavily in others...
...Firestone plant workmen were jubilant over Mr. Thomas' election. They consider him one of themselves. They know him as an experienced rubber man who has had faith in Mr. Firestone for many years and has in turn been trusted and rewarded...