Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to a report of Louis Stark in Sunday's New York Times, the prophecy is now fulfilling itself. In the steel and rubber industries, there is already a movement to join company union in the same industry into a large, independent organization. Where this has already happened, there have already been demands for higher wages and shorter hours. The idea seems to be spreading rapidly in all industries where heretofore the company-dominated employee representation plan has been in force...
...Canada's two great duplicating railway systems, one State-owned and the other private, are to be merged and if so, whether under the state or private capital. None of these issues definitely crystallized in last week's general election, a depressing orgy of muckraking, boos, catcalls, rubber razzberries, fist fights, suits for libel and bombastic broadcasts...
Vasya's wife Ludmilla (Beatrice De Neergaard) is a plump, "undeveloped" peasant who cannot join the Party because she insists on retaining such "bourgeois knickknacks" as a canary, sofa pillows, curtains, rubber plants. She also has "medieval notions" about making men comfortable. Abram's wife Tonya (Fraye Gilbert), on the other hand, catechizes her husband on "ideology," hounds him with a book when he is hungry. The couples inevitably end by quarreling with their mates, longing for a rearrangement. When the poet learns what has happened to his collective paradise, he mutters bitterly, "Sabotage!" The rearrangement is effected...
...headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular heed to motor car horns, radios and cutouts, to motor truck clattering, to workmen, revelers and electioneers making loud talk after 11 p.m. Milkwagon horses, police horses were shod with rubber shoes. Apparently the rest of the vast community gave some heed. After a night of muffling had passed, sound engineers reported that the din of Times Square dropped from 72 decibels to 68 decibels, or 35% in volume of sound...
...Detroit daily, his eyes failed him, and he sadly set up a shipping office in Duluth. Today he owns the Tomlinson fleet of 15 Great Lakes steamers, two farms where he raises horses, 9,000 volumes of Americana, is board chairman of American Shipbuilding, a director of Goodyear Tire & Rubber and vice president of the Cleveland Baseball Club (Indians). He also sits on the boards of 16 Van Sweringen railroads, though he was President Wilson's Wartime Director of Inland Waterways...