Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last month Edward F. McGrady, A. F. of L.'s Washington lobbyist, sharply suggested that Industry should reserve funds to tide over its jobless no less than to pay dividends (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week William Francis ("W. O.'') O'Neil, president of General Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, announced a new and striking plan to pay Labor as well as Capital a dividend. In declaring a special dividend, General Tire's directors decreed that one-half of it should go to stockholders, the other half to a company fund to insure steady employment. Explained...
...Irrepressible Count Felix ("Sea Devil") von Luckner last week set out with friends on his schooner Mophelia to cruise and shark-fish in the Bahamas. His shark-tackle: A 100-ft. rubber rope which, he solemnly declared, would snap sharks out of the water when they finished their rushes...
...rubber in mounting engines, resulting in absorption of engine vibration...
League Report. There is nothing new in the League report on Liberian slave conditions. It is important because it exonerates the U. S. Firestone rubber interests of slaving. This was most important to Secretary Stimson. If he had whitewashed Firestone while tarring Liberia, the whole thing might have looked queer to Europe, queerer to Latin America...
...which he collects passionately) to promote Carbon Petroleum Dubbs's inventions and to direct patent suits such as the one against Standard of Indiana, which already has cost $1,800,000, is still to come to trial. Previously he had helped Armour retrieve a failing investment, Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co., and sell it to Oilman Henry Latham Doherty. His share in the profits last week...