Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together on his sugar plantation in Pointe Coupee parish. Built of steel channel beams welded to a tractor, the machine has hydraulically adjusted, sharp-edged disks which cut the cane at top and bottom, handling 15 to 20 tons of cane per hour, has four-inch rubber cleats on its tires which enable it to negotiate deep mud. According to one eyewitness report, it "cut sugar cane from ten to twelve feet tall . . . stripped it, topped it, bunched it in piles and collected in separate piles the tops for stock feed." Inventor Wurtele claims that it does the work...
...came the word that Hitler had agreed to a four-power conference. The tide turned. During the next hour buying orders for 700,000 shares jammed every brokerage house in Wall Street. The ticker dropped six minutes behind. An order for 15,000 shares of U.S. Rubber jumped the price from $40.75 to $45. General Motors was up $2.25, Chrysler $2.63. At day's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average was up almost six points from the morning's low of 127.85. At week's end the average had reached 143.13, highest since August...
Other reactions to peace were equally logical. Foreign bonds led a zooming bond market. Sterling jumped 13? in one day. Prices of the "war commodities"-wheat, sugar, cottonseed oil-plummeted; other commodities-rubber, silk, hides, cocoa, cotton-zoomed. Marine insurance rates on war risk for gold shipments were cut in half. Brokers resumed plans for new financing, which had sunk to the lowest September volume in three years. And with the overwhelming question of war at least postponed, U.S. businessmen returned to the question of business prospects...
...immediately replaced and the pericardium stitched with catgut. A small opening was left in which Dr. Nicoll inserted a rubber drainage tube. Then he tucked the ribs back in place with 50 stitches. A week later, after several blood transfusions, the drainage tube was removed. For five weeks Patrolman Manning remained in an oxygen tent, and for several months he was given massages to stimulate his heart muscles. Last week Manhattan papers reported that Patrolman Manning was well enough to attend Magistrate's Court for the hearing of his case...
There are only a few major raw materials of which the U. S. does not have its own supplies. Such are rubber...