Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as the British liner Lady Nelson docked in Boston, pier visitors were amazed to see a ship's officer standing on deck, a large rubber muzzle covering his nose, a large rubber doughnut surrounding his mouth, a limp rubber bag hanging on his chest. It was Dr. Richmond Goulden, ship's surgeon, who was modeling an oxygen mask for seasickness, invented by Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Boothby tried the new invention on four seasick passengers during the Lady Nelson's 30-day trip to British Guiana and back. It gave...
Galsworthian technique-thorough rubber-necking at upper-middle-class lives -is at best photographic, kaleidoscopic; at worst trite, futile, obvious. One of Alec Waugh's characters testifies against the author on page 263 (not yet the end): "Her marriage had become like a novel on whose two hundredth page the reader, foreseeing the climax, can only remain inquisitive as to the actual means by which the ultimate unravelling is to be achieved...
Last year the banks unloaded about 40,000 of the U. S. Rubber shares at $50 a share. Yet at year's end Ohio Goodyear still owed $752,000 and was worried over the tax on the profit made by selling at $50 a share the U. S. Rubber stock which had cost $18. Last week both headaches were solved at a public auction of the debentures...
...back its entire funded debt, $2,350,000, at 32% of its face value, simultaneously paying off Ohio Goodyear's bank debt and canceling the profit from the stock sale. However, on the paper profit ($1,598,000) from acquiring the debentures at the written-down figure, Seiberling Rubber Co. must pay a 19% capital-gains tax of $303,620. Net result: Seiberling Rubber retired its $3,100,000 loan by a cash outlay of $1,805,620 (plus interest). F. A. lost on the deal-but won because his company benefited...
Yale, still a newcomer to the scholastic world, has been acting up again. Simply because six Canadians on skates managed to put a little rubber puck into a cage with sticks five times to the Blue's twice, one thousand undergraduates violated eleven statutes of the Connecticut Penal Code. Harvard on the same evening let another group of Canadians romp over them eleven times to the Crimson's once, and the Square remained so quiet you could have heard a pin drop...