Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...within the State. Early this month Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins quietly destroyed the State's last hold on Federal relief funds by appointing Frank Peterman, a bitter anti-Longster, to administer Louisiana relief. Last week Senator Long piped his State legislators to Baton Rouge, commanded them to rubber-stamp bills empowering his State agencies to seize and administer all Federal relief and PWA monies sent into the State, clap Frank Peterman into jail if he did not knuckle under. "This," commented an anti-Long legislator, "is a declaration of war against the United States...
Thus the U. S. is acquiring a huge silver investment at prices maintained only by its own huge purchases. Why it should do so puzzles some economists, but only those who have ignored the writings of the New Deal's monetary adviser, Dr. George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Dr. Warren's chief tenet is, in substance, that the Depression is due to the production of gold falling behind the production of other commodities. He is not primarily a silverite but in his book Gold & Prices, published month ago,* he asserted: "The production of silver has come much nearer...
Success in the pelvis led to Elliott treat-ment of other body orifices with other shapes of rubber bags. Dr. James Malcolm MacKellar, assistant chief surgeon of Englewood, N. J. Hospital, treats sinusitis that way. He inserts a rubber sack the diameter of a lead pencil through each nostril to the top side of the soft palate. Each tube contains a partition which allows a steady flow of hot water. Sinus pains speedily cease as the water circulates. With another kind of Elliott rubber bag, Drs. John Henry Morrissey and Leo L. Michel of Manhattan, and a thousand others...
When New York City called for bids in October 1932, the NRA was not even a political idea and the rubber industry was quoting 34? per ft. as its top price for fire hose. The following July eight new bids were received by the city. Seven quoted 71? a ft., the eighth 75?. All were rejected. Last February, after the Rubber Code had been in effect for more than a year. New York City authorities were amazed to learn that the price had jumped to 82?. Furthermore, they had received 13 bids from 13 different companies all quoting an identical...
...week an investigation was completed, not by NRA but by the Federal Trade Commission. Attorney Harry A. Babcock of the Trade Commission appeared before the Senate Finance Committee, now taking testimony on a bill to extend NRA, to lay grave charges at the door of the fire hose industry. Rubber companies had conspired to fix the price of fire hose, said he, even before the Rubber Code was signed. "After the code was adopted," Attorney Babcock declared, "the conspiracy was perfected and consummated 100%." New York was not the only victim. When Milwaukee accepted a low bid on fire hoses...