Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rubber Rafts...
...this week's [July 25] swell TIME write-up of the Hughes flight was a discussion of the rubber life raft with bottled carbon dioxide for quick inflation. Carbon dioxide happens to be a bad actor as soon as it smells rubber. . . . Its rate of diffusion through rubber is about 15 times that of air. A rubber life raft inflated with carbon dioxide in mid-ocean might, for this reason, be a little embarrassing, perhaps even rather trying after a certain lapse of time...
Department of Chemical Engineering Yale University New Haven, Conn. Although carbon dioxide does indeed leak through rubber 15 times as fast as air, the leakage is still slow. A CO2-inflated raft will carry a man four to six days. CO2 is used only for the first quick inflation: the raft thereafter is kept buoyant by a hand air-pump...
...trouble with his own people last week. Having carried his "inland march" from his original waterfront stamping ground to the point where he bosses C. I. O. in California, he has encountered much antagonism among garment, auto, other unions. Last week the leaders of four Los Angeles locals (automobiles, rubber, garments, shoes) seceded from his California Industrial Union Council, charged that he was nesting with Communists. "We believe," said they, "that any one has a right to be a Communist or a Holy Roller or whatever they choose, but . . . they must give their first loyalty to their unions...
...confessions without using a rubber hose (a secret...