Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patent No. 2,000,000 is for an "improvement for pneumatic tires for railroad cars."* Inventor Ledwinka thinks very little of it. Said he: ''Rubber at high speeds builds up a tremendous heat, enough to blow out the tube, or in solid tires to melt them internally. We were forced recently to replace pneumatic tires with metal wheels on a train we shipped to Texas." Budd Co. will develop his railroad tire, said he, "to meet competition...
...Patent No. 1,000,000, granted in 1911 to Francis H. Holton of Akron, Ohio, was for "an improvement in [rubber] vehicle tires...
...Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo, an ostrich swallowed an orange stuffed with razor blades and safety pins, died. A 150-lb. Galapagos turtle died after being fed a 2-in. rubber band filled with carpet tacks...
PARIS, May 6 (UP)-Pink gas masks of silk and rubber, held in place by golden head bands, were offered today to women of fashion by the dressmaker Dilkusha...
Father Nieuwland helped the du Pont group under Wallace H. Carothers prepare the monovinyl, suggested catalysts for changing it to chlorobutadiene. Carothers found that after standing ten days in a closed vessel, chlorobutadiene became an elastic mass like rubber. Thus Duprene. Last summer du Pont announced that Duprene automobile tires were satisfactory in every respect (TIME, July...