Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris last week the somewhat crushing replies of Germany, Italy and Britain merely caused elastic M. Briand to bounce with animation, like the big and roly-poly diplomatic rubber ball that he is. Professing to be "greatly encouraged" that all the Powers except Britain profess "eagerness" to continue discussion of his scheme, he showed reporters a sheaf of 100% favorable replies from such French satellites as Poland. Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia. Significance. The game of debating the European Union will go on for years, with Aristide Briand as Perpetual Toastmaster. The kudos he will gain as the apostle of Peace...
Greatest of European tiremakers is Andre Michelin et Cie., which in 1929 for the first time in its history showed a deficit of 8,000,000 francs. But it would take more than that to shrink the grin on the rubber face of "Bibendum," famed Michelin trademark mannikin (see cut). Last week Bibendum's grin spread to the faces of 700 former employes of the Michelin plant in Milltown, N. J. Depressed business forced the closing of the plant three months ago. To the employes was due $700,000 from an accumulative yearly bonus which the company paid them under...
...newspaper Viscount and the newspaper Baron have been called blatant mountebanks for ballyhooing "Empire Free Trade," have been denounced by the leaders of all three British parties (Labor, Liberal, Conservative), but how now? Is a little game played with three tariff shells and a rubber trade pea still disreputable when endorsed by the Bank of England, the "big five" and Morgan, Grenfell & Co.? Most certainly not! Wrong was made right in a trice, last week, and black white...
...previous year. Silk at $3.25 per Ib. Silver at 33.7? per oz. Sugar (July) at 1.27? per Ib. Rubber at 11.75? per Ib. Zinc...
...rose in his lapel, swinging a walking stick, Thomas Alva Edison returned to his Llewellyn Park, N. J., home after wintering in Fort Myers, Fla. ; announced he would vote for Dry Senatorial Candidate Franklin W. Fort in New Jersey's primary election, remained mum on his rubber experiments. Mrs. Edison was a member of the Women's Committee backing Wet Candidate Dwight Whitney Morrow...