Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George V, instead of being forced to embrace the husband's nationality. U. S. women already have this right. ¶ Gloomed at a statement by Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson that "after thorough consideration" the Labor Government has decided to make no reduction in the $10 fee collected for rubber stamping (visaing) the passport of each U. S. citizen bound for Great Britain...
...rubber stampings at $10 each give the British Treasury an extra $1,000,000 every year. Rather than lose this, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, now in the agony of bringing forth a budget which will balance despite an increase in the "dole" paid to British can't-works and won't-works, insisted stubbornly that the "nuisance" be continued, even against the ultimate interests of the Empire...
...State College, Pa., Pennsylvania State College scientists last week decided to operate on a cow. Into the stomach of this cow a hole would be cut for the insertion of a rubber tube to facilitate investigations interrupted last fortnight by the death of Cow Jessie...
...Vitamin B was found in Jessie's milk after Vitamin B had been deleted from her diet. Puzzled, experimenters cut a hole in Jessie's side, inserted a rubber tube, periodically examined the contents of her stomach. Ninety per cent of the bacteria in rumen were discovered to be of a new kind, flavobacterium vitarumen. Bacteriologist Ralph Porter Tittsler began investigating the bacteria in Jessie's stomach to discover what influence salt and other chemicals had upon the digestive processes of cows...
...Irvin Bechdel, Hannah Elizabeth Honeywell and Veterinarian James Fremont Shigley; Professors Raymond Adams Dutcher, Martin Halvor Knutsen also wished to perform further investigation on the stomach of a cow. Meeting last week, they decided that the second Pennsylvania State College cow would be selected within two weeks; agreed that rubber tubing would be as effective in Jessie II as it had been in Jessie...