Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. He also confirmed the report that he once told Mark Megladdery to use State funds to pay $150 in back taxes for Sister Ann Merriam, who runs a private school in Los Angeles. (According to testimony, Secretary Megladdery thought it "would not look good," paid instead with a rubber check, and Miss Merriam eventually ponied up for herself.) Mark Megladdery already had admitted to taking $500 from Barman Bent, insisted it was a campaign contribution...
...have to beat out Frank Finley Merriam. Handed the makings of a useful Merriam-Megladdery scandal, ambitious Earl Warren set a grand jury after Mark Megladdery, revealing that in 1936-37 he deposited $6,000 more than his salary, that his propensity for passing rubber checks had extended to State bureaus and even to Miss De Vine...
...Sponge-rubber bait, for mousetraps, which cannot be nibbled off without springing the trap...
Commodity Prices. Last June shorts were squeezed in cotton, hide, rubber, lesser commodities, as well as in stocks. Last week, also on a lesser scale, speculatively minded manufacturers, who had gone short of raw materials, again turned to buy in a rising market. The difference this year is that the commodity price upturn is accompanied by falling instead of rising production, is more speculative, than industrial; cotton textile prices rose as inventories peaked again at over 200,000,000 yards, and manufacturers discussed ways of carrying unwanted cloth; hide prices zoomed as leather production fell from...
...worked by the State-owned Hermann Goring Iron Works; by 1940 the Nazis expect that perhaps 35% of the iron consumption of Great Germany will be supplied from domestic sources. Aluminum from bauxite imported from Hungary and the Balkans is supplementing heavier metals, such as copper and nickel. Artificial rubber sufficient for 25 to 30% of the peacetime rubber requirements is being conjured out of limestone and coal...