Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those ten hard years lay heavy in the thoughts of big, bashful Francis Breese Davis Jr. last week as he handed reporters a mimeographed announcement: for the first time since 1928 United States Rubber Co. has declared a dividend-4% on its 8% preferred. Since 1929, when Mr. Davis became chairman and president of U. S. Rubber, that overfed, unhealthy industrial giant had several times been within a banker's nod of extinction. Last week the giant was healthy again, its waistline of funded debt reduced from $130,000,000 to $46,000,000, its muscles bulging with...
Francis Davis was no rubber man when the Du Fonts put him in to run U. S. Rubber in January 1929. He had worked his way through Yale, become an engineer, built fabulous Hopewell, Va. for the Du Fonts in Wartime, and moved up to manage various Du Pont enterprises. He had a record as a trouble shooter and a trouble shooter was what U. S. Rubber needed in 1929. This biggest unit in the industry had been internally unsound when the Du Fonts bought into it in 1927 and 1928. Francis Davis, diagnosed its troubles as twofold: the general...
Wooden Spikes, Rubber Soldiers...
Most successful trick employed by the Japanese is to slip Japanese uniforms on rubber dummies, stand them up in open trucks and thus deceive the guerrillas into thinking that the truck convoys are too heavily guarded for attack. Both sides frequently use dummies. Other correspondents have reported that Japanese bombers rain tons of expensive explosives on Chinese ''airplanes" and "tanks" which, upon capture, turn out to be reed matting or wooden imitations placed in the open to draw fire. Last week pictures arrived in the U. S. which show heads and shoulders of Chinese "soldiers...
...other night, according to Sergeant Donelan, a car owned by a Missouri boy in Dunster House was found parked on the Esplanade; inside was Stanley Williams, a Negro commonly seen around the Square, with two 15-year-old colored girls. He also had a rubber tube with which he syphoned gas out of other cars, and the speedometer was disconnected...