Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they depict the typical Nordic male as a bulge-muscled athlete. There is another statue in existence, taken from measurements of typical Americans, which shows the Nordic male in his slump-shouldered, pot-bellied self. The least the Museum could do is to put a rubber abdomen on their statue, to be inflated for anthropologists, deflated for art-lovers. HAROLD WOOSTER...
Heads of several unions in Cambridge will be interviewed by the members of the committee, including the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the United Rubber Workers. In addition the files of the Sociology Department of the University will be utilized...
...true that in 1935 and during the course of the present year there has been an increase in our imports of agricultural products. The increase in 1935 over 1934 amounted to $247,000,000. Of this amount, $75,000,000 represented wholly noncompetitive products-coffee, rubber, bananas, etc. Of the remainder, exclusive of sugar, which is governed by international agreement, only $13,000,000 was accounted for by commodities affected by the trade agreements...
...boost: "The King will be glad if the Secretary of State will convey to Squadron-Leader Swain his Majesty's congratulations on his fine achievement in breaking the altitude record with all-British equipment." Part of Hero Swain's equipment was a new type of air-tight rubber "Safety Suit" which, during the descent from his record altitude of 49,967 ft., nearly suffocated him. He escaped death by slashing open the suit...
...would not go were Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter C. Teagle. Among those who could and did were Cord Corp.'s President Lucius B. Manning, TWA's President Jack Frye, De Soto Motor's President Byron C. Foy, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's President Paul W. Litchfeld, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service of New Jersey, Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Edward V. Rickenbacker, Director of Air Commerce Eugene L. Vidal, his assistant Col. J. Carroll Cone, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. N., Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe...