Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett coined commercial reward for having turned cinemactor, signed a contract to broadcast 13 Monday evenings for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. His fee: $4,000 a week, beginning...
...sixteenth rubber there came what Ely Culbertson described, in his report for various newspapers, as the "most spectacular hand of the match." Culbertson held four spades to the nine, bid 4 spades and made six. Score: Lenz & Jacoby...
...cards for the Culbertsons, even with a brilliant victory in the 28th rubber, left Lenz & Jacoby 5,650 points ahead. Ely Culbertson refused a $250 bet offered by Mr. Lenz for a friend...
General Plutarco Elias Calles, 53, "Strong Man of Mexico," Secretary of War and onetime President, was elected head of Compania Hulera Mexicana, newly organized to make synthetic rubber. In January the company will have a factory ready to produce 400 motor tires and 5,000 rubber heels daily. The formula is the work of one Julio Tellez Giron, 46, research chemist who spent 17 years developing his theory that petroleum in its early stages closely resembles rubber. His process is to take crude petroleum, mix it with ground sugar cane. This compound is refined, fried in the sun, vulcanized with...
...materials for Duprene, the synthetic rubber lately announced by the duPont interests, are coal and limestone (carbonate), salt and water (TIME...