Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind General Martin ranged burly John L. Lewis with his 1,400,000 organized workmen of the C. I. O. unions, his surging ambition to become leader of millions more in the automobile, steel, rubber, textile and other mass industries...
...Corporation's 69 plants and 211,000 employes seemed doomed to follow before another week was out. The prodigious consequences of such a shutdown were foreshadowed as G. M. suspended advertising, while out to hundreds of independent partsmakers and material suppliers went stop orders on steel, rubber, tools, lights, batteries, brakes, upholstery, carburetors, radios, many another part and accessory...
Indians, apart from their groveling submission to princely rajas and maharajas in the Native States, and apart from their tepid interest in the rubber-stamp legislative bodies in British India, have a nationwide political organization which they call the "Indian National Congress," and Mahatma Gandhi is its Prophet. In case it should ever be argued that this native Congress does not represent any considerable number of the Indian people, Mr. Gandhi has secured the attendance of some 60,000 Congressmen at each normal meeting. They met last week in a swiftly-constructed bamboo and tent city near the village...
Looking like a giant's roller skate (see cut), the Marsh Buggy has an ordinary Ford V-8 motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse...
From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...