Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rubber. Harvey Samuel Firestone and James Dinsmore Tew (B. F. Goodrich Co.), as representatives of the rubber industry publicly prayed for the bill's defeat by Congress or President Hoover...
Carnera fought in Detroit last week, where he has not been suspended. Opponent was K. O. Christner, tough Akron rubber maker, who fought well against Jack Sharkey and Tom Heeney. Carnera knocked Christner out in the fourth round. On June 23 in Philadelphia Carnera meets George Godfrey, 222-lb. Negro, whom white heavyweight challengers have consistently avoided...
...Charlestown Prison, Boston, Mrs. Edith Barlow's husband wanted his habitual narcotics. Mrs. Barlow stuffed a goodly supply in a rubber finger cot, placed it in her mouth. As she kissed a friendly prisoner, whom in ruse she called her brother, she tongued the drug-stuffed cot into his mouth. A guard caught them...
...rubber growers of the Far East, May was to have been a pleasant month. After long negotiations, British and Dutch planters had agreed to tap no trees during the entire month (TIME, April 14). So well did they argue the thesis that this simple expedient would bolster the price of rubber throughout the world that native growers, notorious for their usual indifference to such schemes, joined in. But last week, in the middle of the tapping holiday, the planters received a shock. In London, rubber prices started a swift decline, broke their 1921 low, went on to establish...
...Although rubber's decline was only one of many in the sweeping readjustment of prices, it was especially discouraging since many plans have been tried and abandoned. But last week while rubber's deflation carried it to 14? a pound against $1.04 a few years ago, rumors were heard of a new aid to the industry, to be administered from the consumers' instead of producers' end. Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber, Firestone, said reports, would ally themselves as copper companies have done, would attempt to eliminate violent price fluctuations in both raw and finished rubber...