Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber made $5,452,000 in 1935 against $4,287,000 in 1934. Sales were $28,000,000 ahead of 1934, but the tire companies spent the best part of the 1935 selling season in one of their chronic price-cutting battles. U. S. motorists bought about 2,500,000 fewer tires in 1935 than in 1934, partly because they were catching on to the possibilities of having tires retreaded. Goodyear, having made 12? a share in 1935, was last week selling at $28, about 233 times earnings...
Last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. bought a seat on the New York Commodity Exchange. The No. 1 U. S. mail order house had no intention of speculating in rubber, silk, copper, hides, tin, lead, zinc, gasoline or crude oil. Indeed, the prime reason for buying the seat was to make it easier not to speculate in such commodities. According to Sears's Robert E. Wood, the seat was acquired to facilitate hedging operations...
...trolley bus system has been successfully installed in several New England towns and in Providence. Powered with a motor similar to that of an ordinary trolley car, these vehicles ride on rubber tries, are steered like a bus, and can wander 12 feet each side of the trolley...
...Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly ratty British youths with a wild craving for motor cars, just misses a homosexual imbroglio by falling for the girl next door and her roadster. Even Mrs. Hilton (Gladys Cooper), sensible matron that she is, entertains a fleeting fancy for a returned rubber planter. And, most unexpectedly of all, Roger Hilton (Philip Merivale), a financier impeccable of manner and noble of mien, has a weak moment with a flashy actress. By midnight, however, the devil has been safely sent packing...
Except for the exhibition of the speedy left wingman, the Yardlings were unimpressive in ringing up their fifth victory of the season. The other three goals were scored by Captain Austie Harding, who caged the rubber twice, and Jim Jameson...