Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...older balloons were hand-fashioned sheets of rubber stock-a laborious task at best. The new balloons are made by a radically new process perfected by the research laboratories ol he Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. and known as the Kaysam Process. By it, virgin latex is cast to give a hollow ten-inch ball of rubber gel, which can then be expanded by air pressure into a four-foot balloon. After drying and curing it is ready...
Because of the peculiar physical properties of he latex rubber, the cured balloon can be expanded with a very slight pressure to at least 16 ft. in diameter before it bursts. In the expanded balloon the latex rubber is stretched so that its thickness is in the neighborhood of .00006 in. It is their ability to expand to such great size that makes these balloons so well-adapted to stratospheric work...
...Samuel Finley Breese Morse. In the evening, efficient young Patent Commissioner Conway Peyton Coe read a list of the twelve foremost dead inventors in U. S. history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton, Charles Goodyear (vulcanized rubber), Charles Martin Hall (commercial aluminum), Elias Howe (sewing machine), Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper), Ottmar Mergenthaler (linotype), Samuel Finley Breese Morse, George Westinghouse, Wilbur Wright, Eli Whitney...
...with the shipping strike. Same year he was occupied with the A. & P. strike; in 1935 with the Chevrolet strike (Toledo), the Edison strike (Toledo), the Industrial Rayon strike (Cleveland), soft coal strike negotiations, the longshoremen's strike (New Orleans). In 1936 he has been busy with the rubber strike (Akron), building service strike (Manhattan), anthracite negotiations, gas strike (Toledo), shipping strike (San Francisco). In three years he has spent less than a quarter of his time in his air-cooled Washington office, has flown an estimated 145,000 miles to stir the New Deal's peace porridge...
...additional work: it was work done in the autumn and winter which would otherwise be done in the spring. But it meant that nearly 100,000 more motor workers had jobs when they most needed them. In the industries which supply the motor trade like steel, glass, rubber, chemicals, textiles, the pre-year plan made another 50,000 winter jobs...