Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to embryonic skeletons in unlaid eggs. A method of developing sensitized paper by heat may find its industrial application in making wrappings for fruit, to warn consignees when shipments have not been kept below spoiling temperature. Akron. The tourists did not show up at the B. F. Goodrich rubber plant looking like janitors but they were obviously not wearing their best clothes. Reason: they had been forewarned that what clothes they wore through the plant would be thoroughly impregnated with the odor of rubber and soapstone...
Said Dr. James W. Schade, director of Goodrich research: "The cost per mile of automobile tires is today one-tenth what it was before the scientists tackled the job of improving the rubber. Formerly the manufacturer was taking a chance in guaranteeing 3,000 miles per tire. Today the customer is dissatisfied if he does not get more than 15,000 miles. Meantime the weight has been reduced...
...Great savings have been made possible in other ways. Organic accelerators for speeding up the curing process and at the same time improving the rubber resulted in a saving of $40,000,000 to the industry and $50,000,000 to the consumer...
Just as the 55th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor was drawing to a close in Atlantic City last week, Vice President John Llewellyn Lewis rose to press the rubber workers' plea for an industrial union charter. Also to his feet sprang William L. Hutcheson, A. F. of L. vice president and head of the carpenters' union, to raise a point of order on the ground that the convention had already agreed to deny such charters. "Is the delegate impugning my motives?" thundered the beefy, bull-necked leader of 400,000 United Mine Workers. Belligerently...
...attentive politicians how it was done. An attendant scrubbed the gaunt tuberculous woman's chest with alcohol. Dr. Joannides anesthetized a small area between two ribs. Then he took a jar of filtered air from a shelf. To the mouth of the jar was attached a soft rubber tube. To the other end of the tube Dr. Joannides fastened a large hollow needle. This he jabbed between the unflinching woman's ribs, kept it there while the air sighed from the jar into the vacuum around her diseased lung. When he judged that the cushion...