Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economists. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, there are some 20 statistical series that usually call the turn;*among the best of these is inner-tube production. Motorists must replace casings when they wear out but can patch old tubes in hard times. Last week the Rubber Manufacturers' Association announced that in June a whopping 450.000 more inner tubes were produced than in May, by far the biggest monthly increase since Depression II's February...
...subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show her course, kites for an emergency radio aerial, a shotgun and fishing tackle in case she piled up on a coral reef, enough food for 15 people for a month...
Some people are content merely to enjoy music. Others cannot rest content until they have explained, or tried to explain, why they enjoy it. Such malcontents have included sensitive critics, brain-wrenching philosophers, precise, rubber-gloved scientists. But the question, Why people enjoy music, still remains unanswered...
...might do well to make peace, the better to fight their common enemies. 2) He disclosed that by diet and exercise he has taken off 44 Ib. in three months, has got down to a fit 170, the better to fight his enemies. Encased in heavy pants, rubber vest, rubber coat, two sweaters, he sweats his way around the University of Washington track every morning at 6 o'clock , flexes the Beck muscles on a rowing machine, subjects the Beck posterior to an electric belt...
...calling all stations) carried 4,837 miles to Hermosa Beach, Calif. During earlier tests from Wichita, Kans., it was heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last point of departure. With...