Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aged 55, "Joe" Cotton, a Harvard man, had won great renown as a corporation lawyer in Manhattan when he specialized in organizations (Radio Corp., International Harvester Co.) and reorganizations (N. Y. Rys. Corp.; Childs Restaurants; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; Dodge- Chrysler; Goodyear Tire & Rubber). During the War as head of the meat division of the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover he controlled the "biggest packing trust in the world." In May 1929 the President picked him as one of his "new patriots" who would sacrifice a $100,000 per year private practice for a $10,000 per year Federal...
...Olympics. The Old American is sanctioned by the Intercollegiate Swimming Association and played by Pennsylvania, Columbia, C. C. N. Y., Yale, Syracuse, Rutgers, Navy, Princeton. Recently Dartmouth resigned from the Intercollegiate Swimming Association to get out of playing it. The Old American is played with a half-inflated white rubber ball which is dragged under water as soon as it is tossed in and usually kept there until a goal is scored. Bubbles, choked cries, limbs eccentrically twisted rise to the surface. Faces reappearing after long confinement under water are sometimes empurpled, sometimes tombstone-pallid. Spectators find little science...
...made goods in their respective areas with a view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...
Causes of Explosions, which surgeons guard against during operations under ether or ethylene anesthesia, include sparks and intense heat from lighting, radiation, or motor equipment; cauteries; static electricity caused by shuffling feet, rubbed hair, dry woolen blankets, frictioned rubber tubing...
Following this, a series of fine films were made on the subject of land transportation, elementary animals, and rubber. One of the best of these pictures is titled, "Nesting of the Sea Turtle." The film gives an accurate account of this curious creature which makes its home, year in and out, in deep water. In the spring of each year, however, the female turtle comes ashore to lay her eggs. Along the lonely southern beaches, she crawls above tide reach, scoops a deep hole in the sand with her flippers, and lays her ten dozen or more eggs. Finally...