Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Francis Alonzo Hardy, 80, one-time president of Diamond Rubber Co., onetime board chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co., founder of F. A. Hardy & Co., Chicago optical company which merged with American Optical Co.; in Pasadena, Calif...
Cleverly Mr. Babson had not said when or where the war would start or who would be the belligerents; but cleverly Wilson pieced everything together, starting with Mr. Babson's tip that "surplus stocks of grain, cotton, rubber, sugar and other goods" were producing economic stresses, and that stresses have produced wars...
Died, Samuel Woolner Jr., 64, president of the Rubber Association of America, retired (two months ago) president of the Kelly-Springfield Rubber Co.; in Manhattan; after a lingering illness...
Coconuts v. Whales Sirs: Our tight little island is a microcosm of world troubles. Just now rubber is fluttering on verge of bankruptcy. . . . Many estates have stopped working, others cutting down costs to minimum. . . . Many a man has lost the savings of his lifetime...
...year ago Dr. William Chauncey Geer, researcher for B. F. Goodrich Co. revealed a means he had devised to prevent the formation of ice on the wings of airplanes (TIME, April 14, 1930). He affixed rubber "overshoes," impregnated with oil, to the leading edges of the wings, and to struts, tail surfaces, flying wires. By means of a motor-driven pump, the overshoes were made to pulsate-to loosen the ice as quickly as it could form. The ice would be blown away. Last week at Akron, the Goodrich company announced that a Lockheed Vega and a Douglas mail plane...