Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their occupations and described typical problems encountered in a day's work. On hearing the talks the Senior definitely decided that manufacturing was the field for him, and through the Alumni Placement service, which also maintains offices in Wadsworth House, he succeeded in finding a job in a rubber factory, where the work is proving thoroughly satisfactory...
...specimen himself. In this way he obtained the only veritable man-eating tiger to reach the U. S. alive. The Sultan of Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed like a Texas steer, pulled up to the mouth...
...cannot our rubber magnates act like gentlemen toward one another and get together for the stabilizing of the price of rubber tires...
...sermons received front-page space. Yet last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer front-paged the Sunday sermon of Rev. J. M. Russell, pastor of the Monroe Memorial United Presbyterian Church of Akron, Ohio. The reason: Mr. Russell's sermon was one of the most acrid attacks on the rubber industry yet heard, and many a Clevelander, especially Goodyear-controlling Mr. Eaton, has a stake in that industry...
Annoying even to God-fearing rubber-men must have been this sermon. But the fact, however unrelated, was that before the ensuing week was out leaders of the industry met and conferred and, on the one day of the week when all stocks were weakest, rubber stocks suddenly firmed, flurried higher on the glad tidings that some of the many troubles of the tire industry had been patched...