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Word: rubber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and B. F. Goodrich Co. put most of their departments on a six-hour day as an emergency means of providing for the largest number of employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Wanted: Millions of Jobs | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

Efficiently the police charged. In street after street their method was the same. A double line, stretching from wall to wall, rushed down the street at a run, rubber clubs flailing. Persons who "resisted" or could not get out of the way fast enough were arrested. Nearly all were set free as fast as dunder-headed policemen marched them before intelligent Berlin judges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plate Glass Riots | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

Harvey S. Fire stone, head of the Fire stone Rubber Co., has leased a million acres of land for ninety-nine years to be used for the production of rubber. Fire stone hopes not only to furnish America with a source for this valuable material but eventually to develop Liberia into a market for American goods. As means of transportation in the country are few, the company is building roads between its various posts. The industry in general is of greatest economic value as it provides employment for many of the inhabitants at a wage which, although small, is greater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Liberia Would Benefit by American Intervention," Declares R. P. Strong | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

...fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries to work it, throws good money after bad. In increasing frenzy he dissipates all his ill-gotten gains on the infernal machine. Hero, after misadventures, tracks him down. From this point the plot thickens, twists, jumps like a rubber band. Its final fillip knocks Villain on the chin, Hero and Heroine into each other's arms. In a few minutes you have seen, with many a thrill, many a laugh, nary a tear, Life's panorama sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gross Satire | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...greeted the first notable failure of the year. On the Curb, from which the company was also suspended, support was practically withdrawn from stocks identified with Sisto. Cosden Oil went from $11½ to $8; Cuneo Press from $31½ to $16; Hygrade Food Products from $6 to $2f; National Rubber Machinery from $8¾ to $1?. An investment trust sponsored by the firm last year, Sisto Financial, tumbled from $17? to $10 and remained pegged at that figure with $2 bid, and a sale at $4? taking place "under the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stockmarket & Sisto | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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