Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Critic Irene Thirer of the New York Daily News referred to this picture as a "barkie," which is one way of saying that its most startling sound effects are produced by a dog?famed Rin Tin Tin. He helps to apprehend a villain, the unscrupulous manager of a tropical rubber plantation (John Loder), and is thereby a great satisfaction to the comely heiress who, among other things, has been willed the plantation. In the course of the story Charles Delaney becomes variously but strongly attached to both girl...
...Tapping in May. If every grower who promises to refrain from tapping rubber trees during May keeps his word, rubber production for the month should be down 50%, for the year, 3%. So the Rubber Growers Association of Great Britain predicted when last week it announced that 80% of the British and Dutch growers in the Far East had assented. But dealers, knowing that active growers have never shown interest in curtailment, are skeptical, expect only a temporary effect in the rubber market...
...device consists of a vulcanized rubber casing to be laced to the leading edge of the wing and impregnated with an oil which resists the formation of ice. There the scientists were faced with the problem of composing an oil which would not only offer zero-adhesion, but would not be scrubbed away by the action of 100-mile winds and rain. Further to render the scrubbing action impossible, the oils are absorbed into thin sheets of vulcanized rubber which in turn exude the mixture...
...Ogre has yet another weapon. The terrific force of his ally, the wind, against a plane in flight is sufficient to hold ice particles against the rubber by atmospheric pressure, although there is no actual adhesion. The ice will not remove itself. Ingeniously, the experimenters ran an air tube through the overshoe beneath the oil-holding layer. A flip of a small pump in the pilot's cockpit slightly inflates the tube, budging the ice, which is immediately blown away as the vacuum breaks...
...Friday April 4, the final day of spring football practice, the "Hardwicks" won the spring football title by defeating the rival "Mahans" 13 to 0 in the rubber game of the three contest series. J. F. Shereschewsky '32 scored all 13 points for the Hardwicks, racing 40 yards off left tackle in the first period for the initial score, and plunging eight yards in the third period for the second touchdown, after which he kicked the extra point...