Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dies and is buried near the clubhouse. A boy named Bitts gets his father to buy the lot on which the clubhouse stands but Penrod's father buys it back again. The clubhouse is a cozy shanty, ornamented outside by a piece of tin, a portion of rubber-hose, furnished inside with barrels of paint, old packing boxes, a tin-gavel and a periscope made out of a broken mirror. Most enthusiastic members are two small blackamoors, Herman Washington (James Robinson) and Verman Washington (Robert Dandridge), who are so young & ignorant that they are unable to read the club...
...Henry Ford; at Lewiston, Me. Mr. Ford, entranced by Mr. Dunham's rendition of "Turkey in the Straw" & "Boston Fancy," took him to Detroit for one of his old-fashioned parties. A vaudeville tour afterward did not go to his head. Playing on Broadway, he still wore mackinaw, rubber shoes, woolen shirt. In his own district, where there were lots of fiddlers, he was famed for his snowshoes. His proudest boast was that he equipped Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary for snowshoeing to the North Pole...
...contract bridge played last week in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt by four experts, under the auspices of the recently organized Bridge Headquarters, Inc. The experts-Willard Karn & fat Philip Hal Sims v. David Burnstine & Oswald Jacoby -played six prearranged hands and a five-game rubber. The 450 spectators, who had paid $1 each to be admitted, sat in comfortable chairs, watched the play on a Scoreboard erected near the bridge table...
...greater part of the book deals with what Mr. Flynn thinks are corporate practices. Such famed cases are cited as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad scandals of 1925, the St. Louis & San Francisco revelations of 1913, the Good year Tire & Rubber reorganization in 1921. Modern examples are the Bethlehem bonus system, the Loft, Inc. management troubles in 1930, the Bank of United States failure and the fall of Banker Rogers Caldwell. Cyrus Stephen Eaton's recently shaken corporate pyra mid is also discussed adversely...
...weekly section meetings. These three-hour afternoon struggles against the soporific process of digestion are carefully planned; the facts gained from the plants studied are interpreted; several main ideas are driven home; and something approaching a comprehensive picture of the plant kingdom is obtained. Several films of rubber plantations and botanical gardens are thrown in to make the first half year a fairly pleasant and profitable...