Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened to many a plane in Hell's Angels when Howard Hughes was putting an inherited fortune made from oil-well drills into movies instead of aviation, this foolproof ocean-spanning plane had been forced down, that contingency was provided for, too. Aboard were two inflatable rubber rafts, with stocks of water, "nose cups" to condense breath into emergency water supply, concentrated rations, a can opener. To inflate the rafts there were cylinders of carbon dioxide covered with woolen jackets, and a supply of canvas gloves with which to handle them, since compressed carbon dioxide freezes its container when...
...This is not a punitive investigation," declared Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the joint Congressional-Executive Monopoly Investigation, last week. Whereupon the committee began planning its probing of the steel, rubber, cement and milk-marketing industries, and many a Big Businessman felt none too sure of the literalness of Chairman O'Mahoney's assertion. This week, something of a sedative for nervous executives was administered by the Brookings Institution in Washington, which published the fifth volume of its famed series of studies of the basic economic maladjustments in U. S. industry. The first four volumes...
...Rancher John Z. Anderson, Herbert Hoover answered last month's "liberal" appeal of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, July 4): "The New Deal has sit up labor boards which are executives, legislatures, prosecutors, judges, juries and executioners. It has tried to humble the judiciary and turn Congress into a rubber stamp. If this be liberalism, then King George III, Karl Marx, Mussolini and Boss Tweed were liberals...
...Chicago this week visitors at the New Bauhaus found an exhibition of bewildering nameless objects: gadgets of wire, wood, sandpaper, linoleum, felt, rubber and ordinary paper cut in odd accordion-pleated patterns. These objects, which sometimes suggested the scraps left in cabinetmakers' shops, and sometimes the more outlandish contraptions of Rube Goldberg, represented part of the first year's work of the 70 students of the New Bauhaus...
...peaks. At week's end 10,000,000 shares had been traded, values had increased $5,000,000,000 and the industrial averages stood at 131.94, rails at 25.45, utilities at 20.58. Leading stocks showed such gains as U. S. Steel from $43 to $54; U. S. Rubber from $27 to $32; American Tel & Tel from $129 to $142; Chrysler from $42 to $57; N. Y. Central from $11 to $15; Electric Power & Light from $9 to $1 i ; Johns-Manville from $71 to $84; General Motors from $30 to $36. Moody's Commodity Index rose from...