Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faltboaters never say "shooting the rapids," but always "Wildwasserfahren." The rubber keel strips are "Kielverstarkungs-streijen aus Vollgummi," the inflatable cushion an "Aufblasbares Sitzkissen...
...Kissner's Folbots cost from $40 to $70, come in five models and two typesצrdinary and heavy duty. The complete craft weighs about 50 lb. A canvas deck keeps out spray, and two rubber notation tanks prevent sinking in case of capsizing. Low-slung, they are hard to tip over. Experts have made the 1,400 miles around the coast of England, the 17,000 miles from England to New Guinea, the 1,500 miles from Manhattan to Chicago. German, British and U. S. submarines are sometimes outfitted with them. As in skiing, German is the language...
...Akron at a meeting of the Twenty Year Service Club of Goodrich employes. Because Mr. Tew has long been known as one of the hardest-working executives in Akron, he was readily believed, readily understood when he announced that he was retiring as active head of the great rubber company...
...once been known as Goodrich, Tew & Co. His first job was to clean and roll liners at 15? an hour, ten and a half hours a day. When his boss told him two years later that $75 a month was his limit, young Tew walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. and got a better job. The first successful cord tire made in the U. S., Silvertown, was produced by Diamond as a result of a study Tew made in England of the Palmer cord tire process. In 1912 Goodrich and Diamond merged and Jim Tew began the climb that landed...
Elected Tew's successor at Goodrich's annual meeting in Manhattan last week was Samuel Brown Robertson, 59, who went to Goodrich in 1919 after 20 years as a supervising engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad. As director of engineering for the rubber company, big, husky Sam Robertson built the $4,000,000 Goodrich plant at Los Angeles, which is considered a model in the industry...