Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Peter Reider, 37, chief preparator of the University of Nebraska's museum, found that the rib bones of a prehistoric rhinoceros gave off a mellow sound when struck, assembled a few, built a "bonophone." With the ribs placed on a wooden frame, insulated by strips of rubber and held in position by rubber bands, the bonophone resembles a xylophone, but has a softer, resonant tone. Tuning his instrument by orchestra bells, Preparator Reider likes to play Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing, Chopsticks, America...
...need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that Dr. Jackson has a set of expansible soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base of the patient's neck into the windpipe. This permits the patient to breathe during the years which may be necessary to repair his throat. Dr. Jackson's first direct step is to compress a small...
...London Economic Conference, he considered himself rather ill-used by ironic foreign correspondents of the U. S. Press. Even more did he resent the general acceptance of his Reserve Board appointment as an unvarnished political award. He went to Washington determined to demonstrate that he was more than a rubber stamp for Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles. There he ran into something worse than a clash of opinions: his New Dealing colleagues did not take him as seriously as he took himself...
...Villanova College last week went the Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born professor of organic chemistry at Notre Dame, to receive the Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his researches on acetylene which led to the development of synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Before the ceremony a newshawk questioned the famed priest on another outgrowth of his researches, lewisite, only war gas deadlier than mustard gas. Said Father Nieuwland...
Just before the heavy weather of the post-War depression, Drugman Queeny put out a sea anchor in Britain by buying a half interest in a Welsh concern making phenol (pure carbolic acid). In 1929 Monsanto absorbed Rubber Service Laboratories with a plant in Nitro, W. Va. for producing chemicals used in rubber processing. Same year Monsanto acquired the Buffalo, N. Y. plant of Mathieson Alkali Works and Merrimac Chemical Co. at Everett, Mass., oldest and largest New England manufacturer of heavy chemicals for the textile, paper and tanning industries. Monsanto has lost money in only three years since...