Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. made $5,649,000 in the year ending Oct. 31, 1935, compared to $4,154,000 in the previous twelve months. Sales were...
...Pooley, the Press's managing editor, sent his candid cameraman to Houston's well-equipped Memorial Hospital to get some operation pictures. Robert Garland Jolly, the hospital's publicity-wise superintendent, gave Photographer Miller a warm welcome, clapped him into a sterile white gown, cap and rubber gloves, ushered him into the operating room. There he snapped a series of run-of-the-mill slicings while Superintendent Jolly, surgeons and nurses gave him every assistance. Toward the end of the morning, as a patient was being wheeled away, Superintendent Jolly turned to Photographer Miller, remarked: "Now here...
...increase carbon black capacity from 385,000 lb. a day to 485,000 lb. a day. Carbon black is produced by burning a "sour" natural gas that is no good for lighting or heating. Tiremakers take 75% of the output; 15% goes into inks; the remainder is used in rubber heels, shoe polish, paint, other products. ¶ By Nov. 1 the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had made 7,381 teletypewriter installations, compared to 5,419 as of Nov. 1, 1934. ¶ Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor announced an additional dividend of 10% to depositors of Manhattan...
...suffice in those industries where the line between the craft and the unskilled workers is not discernible." Miner Lewis claimed to have lined up not only his own huge industrial union but the International Typographical Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Ladies' Garment Workers, Mine, Mill & Smelter Union, milliners, rubber and brewery workers. However, he was at pains to disclaim any ambition to unseat William Green, vowed that the quarrel would be conducted within the Federation...
Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...