Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secondary factor of the Chinese resistance has been the weather. Heavy snowfalls, then freezing weather, mucked down Japanese tanks, motor transports in the loose soil of Shansi Province. Last week the Japanese were still sending brave bands across the river in rubber pontoon boats, frail craft menaced by floating chunks of ice,Chinese sniper bullets, whirling, angry waters...
Time was when Pittsburgh was the U. S. steel town, Detroit the automobile town, Akron the rubber town. But the improvement to transportation facilities has led to a general decentralizing of U. S. industries. Incidentally, the process has been hard on Labor. Nowhere is this more evident than in Akron, which last week witnessed a Grade A case in point: In a blunt manifesto to the United Rubber Workers Union, B. F. Goodrich Co. announced that its workers would have to accept 13% to 18% wage cuts or else Goodrich would pull another 5,000 jobs out of its Akron...
...years Akron pay scales have been higher than those of most other cities. This caused little trouble so long as most of the major rubber firms were concentrated in Akron. But in 1936 Akron rubber workers staged a strike which raised wages still further. Goodyear, Firestone and to a lesser extent Goodrich then began building plants in such scattered spots as Oaks, Pa., Jackson, Mich., Fall River, Mass. Akron now produces only 40% of U. S. rubber as against 55% two years ago. Akron rubber workers, however, still cling to their high wage rate (an average of $1.05 an hour...
...retained a controlling interest and has given new stock to as many of the original company's stockholders as he could find. This week he and his wife were the guests of Manhattan's Commodity Club, which paid their expenses from Texas to hear them describe their "rubber-tired hoe with a seat...
...seniors may pass the rubber for the last time this evening--six doughty forwards who through four years of Freshman and Varsity hockey have never lost a game to Yale, winning 3-2 as Yardlings, 11-0 and 5-2 as Sophomores, and 8-5 and 5-0 last year...