Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goodrich-Miller. Suffering from lower crude rubber prices and competition, Miller Rubber Co. of Akron has not done well since 1926. Last week another Akron company, B. F. Goodrich Co. (Silvertown Cords), proposed a merger. Chief Miller products are tires (Miller De Luxe Balloon: "The tire sensation of a decade"), but the company also makes a complete line of rubber goods. Another recent step in Goodrich expansion was the acquisition of Hood Rubber Co. (TIME, Sept...
Editor Ralph C. Busby of India Rubber & Tire Review: "Distributors everywhere in looking to 1930 have legitimate reason to be conservatively optimistic...
Giant. Also said Standard Statistics: "At the wheel of the automobile rides America's industrial destiny." In the U. S. are 320,000 filling stations, 51,200 public garages, 56,300 car and truck dealers. The industry uses 85% of the rubber, 80% of the gasoline, 75% of the plate glass, 18% of the steel, 25% of the lead produced in the land. In the U. S. are registered 26 million motor vehicles with a wholesale value of $3,500,000,000. Obvious are the reasons why U. S. businessmen, after examining the first show reports and reading...
From wall to wall the little trapped ball, hard as a modern golf ball, smaller than a modern baseball-a Turk's head of plaited rubber strips sewn in a membrane of goat-skin-flew so hard that it hurt bare hands. The players took to wearing gloves, then invented and strapped to their throwing wrists a long shallow wicker basket (called cesta). hooked like a giant's fingernail. The length of the throwing arc added speed to the little ball, heightened the game's excitement, sent it back across the ocean with other Spanish improvements...
Less ancient than Scovill, but still old by U. S. standards, is the Schrader concern. In 1844 August Schrader started making diving suits and air pumps, a business that brought him into contact with many of the early rubber experimenters. After making moulds for Dr. Charles Goodyear, Founder Schrader began to manufacture a variety of metal parts for rubber products. When pneumatic tires were made for bicycles he introduced a new valve, now used on 85% of automobile tires. Other Schrader products include metal parts for hot water bottles and footballs, tire pressure gauges, air-hose fittings, valve tools...