Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-dozen of the planes on the carriers are land planes. Each is equipped with a rubber bag and air pump to inflate it in case of forced landings at sea. Two destroyers escort each carrier as tenders for such mishaps...
...Chicago, Joe Grein ("Mayor of Randolph Street"), oldtime saloon keeper, is president of the city's Malt Producers Association. From the $20,000 worth of bottles, barrels, hops, malt, caps, cappers, kegs, jugs, rubber hose, filtering paper and flavoring extracts on the shelves of the Grein shop a homebrewer could, until last week, buy everything he needed. Grein's shop, like thousands of others throughout the land, sold everything connected with liquor except the liquor itself...
...Ottawa last week Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning raised a terrific commotion in the Dominion Parliament by bringing in a budget the chief feature of which was 500 tariff changes, the whole so controversial that it seems likely to be much modified before being voted and submitted for the rubber stamp of Royalty. In a fiery speech against the bill Leader Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative opposition accused Mr. Dunning of attempting reprisals against the new U. S. tariff (TIME, March 31), and thereby endangering international friendly relations. After a brief, preliminary survey of the voluminous measure, experts guessed...
Thump, thump, thump, thump?at 3:30 p. m. the sound of the crippled Chancellor's rubber tipped canes was heard, and at 3:46 the great budget speech...
Thomas Midgley Jr., Dayton chemist, inventor of ethyl gasoline, placed a dish of a new refrigerant devised by him on a table before his section. Leaning low over the boiling dish he inhaled the white gas given off by the steaming liquid. Through a rubber tube he then blew the gas out of his lungs into a dish containing a burning candle, extinguished...