Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blushing to use the word "revolutionary," U. S. Rubber Co. last week announced Laytex, a new insulation...
...founded United Fruit Co., and a salvage company whose president, Thomas P. Connolly, had invented a new kind of diving-suit. Weighing 675 Ib. on deck, the suit has a head and body of steel, with grotesque protuberances for eyes and something that looks like a nose. Of rubber reinforced by interwoven copper strips, the arms and legs become flexible when subjected to high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck. The diver goes down without an airhose, carries an oxygen bottle, a respirator, caustic soda to absorb carbon dioxide...
...father's Rocky mountain Fuel Co. (TIME, Sept. 7, 1931; Sept. 24); Mary Elizabeth Dillon, who rose from office-girl to president of the 12,000,000 Brooklyn Borough Gas Co.; Eleanor Medill Patterson, fiery editor of Hearst's Washington Herald; May Greer, cashier of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., reputedly highest salaried woman in the U. S.; Minnie Williams Miller, owner and operator of Thousand Springs stock farms in Idaho; Mrs. Charles B. Knox, president of Knox Gelatine Co., and many others...
...that of L. L. B. Angas, a British financial prophet and weather-man who has the interesting habit of producing periodical manifestoes, predicting with unfailing accuracy important pending events in the world of international finance and commerce. He predicted, some months in advance of the actual date, the rubber market collapse of 1926, the English boom in the fall of 1931, and the world-wide rise in the price of gold shares. Now he is again gambling his reputation, this time with a booklet entitled "The Coming American Boom...
Home markets meant not merely 8,000,000 Dutchmen, but 60,000,000 brown men living in the Netherlands Indies. How her subjects, white or brown, are to consume more of their own oil, sugar, rubber, quinine and coffee, the Queen did not say. But she made clear that she is taking no chances with the policing of her distant empire.* Said...