Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Results of this experiment are extremely interesting to the observer. Rubber loses its elasticity and becomes a translucent, horny material; paper is similarly affected. Red phosphorus is turned permanently black. The electrical resistance of some metals was found to be abnormally high under this treatment...
That was too heretical for even old Professor Fisher, who is a stanch advocate of the commodity ("rubber") dollar. To please his patron, Yaleman Garland revalued the patent at $5,000,000. Automatic Signal prospered modestly, is still a going concern. Still board chairman is spare, white-goateed Professor Irving Fisher. Yaleman Garland withdrew into the mysteries of his 30 new corporations...
...exploded in queer bursts of affection or rage. The memorable passages include an incident when the author, in an agony of loneliness, heard lovers in a field at night, crept close to listen; a terrible glimpse of a man whose nose had been blown away, breathing through two red rubber tubes that gave him the appearance of an insect; a description of a nurse who, in a world of dying men, began to complain of an earache. The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys is a two-volume affair running to 1,271 pages, covering the period from June...
...that menaces airplanes usually forms on the leading edge of the wings. Goodrich has developed a "deicer" consisting of a pair of rubber tubes which ordinarily lie flat against the wing. When ice formation begins the tubes are pulsated by an air pump. This movement cracks the ice coat, lets the wind blow it away .The "deicer" is already in use on some transport planes, is slated for thorough experiment on military aircraft...
...Gulliver (Amkino) contains what is probably the most extraordinary cast ever seen in cinema: 3,000 puppets. Made of clay, rubber, metal, wood and cloth, specially designed to act for the camera, they are operated not by strings like ordinary marionettes but by invisible human hands which change the puppets' positions and expressions between each film exposure. It took 25 separate shots, for example, to show a puppet raising his arm. This process gives their activities the staccato quality of a Walt Disney cartoon but it is by no means their principal claim to distinction. Representing the population...