Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called a protest strike, that 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. The Goodyear strike was an unauthorized "outlaw"' disturbance, perpetrated principally by WPA groups and non-Goodyear people, many admittedly former rubber workers, now unemployed in this era of the more abundant life...
...Bryn Mawr's maple-shaded campus last week gathered a clothing worker and a shoe worker from England, an automobile worker from Kansas City, a rubber worker from Akron-65 working girls all told. Their clothes did not come from Fifth Avenue nor their manners from a finishing school, but for seven weeks they will enjoy the luxury of Bryn Mawr's capitalistic dormitories, swimming pool, tennis courts and learning. They are students in the college's Summer School for Women Workers, which last week began its 18th year...
...Although rubber executives generally live on the heights of West Akron, and rubber workers live on the heights of East Akron, there is quite a little interchange, as some minor executives live in East Akron and some workers live on West Hill...
...least two of the large rubber companies have invested millions of dollars in providing homes for rubber workers; each house is of different architectural design, and built in parklike surroundings. Other workers are living in their own homes, or in rented houses in attractive neighborhoods...
...city system. Some others: nearly a score of rural schools in Michigan; trade schools at the River Rouge plant; three schools in Sudbury, Mass.; seven rural schools and the famed Martha Berry Schools in Georgia; an agricultural institute at Boreham House near Chelmsford, England; a school for rubber workers' children, Fordlandia, 600 miles up the Amazon in Brazil...