Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sponge-rubber shock absorber to be placed at the bottom of brass poles down which firemen slide...
...soap-saving rubber jacket in which to enclose a cake of soap, exposing only one side of the cake...
...puck about like an old shoe. The usual result of such a foray into enemy territory is a terrific 10-man collision, the nucleus of which is the man with the puck. There is no escaping this sort of defense. Then Lowell's Bud Doering takes the misshapen rubber disk that has been beaten to a pulp by the Winthrop bludgeons, and careens down the ice until by the time he crosses the blue line nothing is seen but a blur with skates on. At this point another ear-splitting collision occurs. The bodies are wheeled...
Japan's rubber-stamp Diet last week heard its new Premier, Fascist-minded Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, make some unorthodox admissions: 1) Chinese resistance was formidable; 2) in conquered territory Japanese troops controlled only cities and communications lines; 3) the Japanese Army will have to remain in China for a long time to come...
...Washington's Naval Hospital, death from heart disease came suddenly last week to Herman Oliphant, 54, grey-locked, hollow-eyed general counsel of the Treasury Department. It left the Treasury bereft of the most earnest economic experimenter remaining there since the withdrawal of the late Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Herman Oliphant, a law scholar before he was a financier and a liberal before he was a lawyer, was the prime advocate of the Undistributed Profits Tax, written into the tax law of 1936. All but the bare principle of that tax, which Franklin Roosevelt loved...