Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cover of your magazine (Sept. 7) you stated: "You can buy a rubber stamp for .50 cents." We think you should have stated also where the stamp could be purchased: "At the H. M. Nutter Co., San Francisco...
Last year after Depression deficits of $21,000,000 had frayed the fiscal treads of B. F. Goodrich Co., its president, James Dinsmore Tew, decided it was time for the rubber firm to get a new set of financial tires. He asked his stockholders to approve a new $45,000,000 first mortgage of which $28,000,000 was to be raised immediately. Of this sum $6,000,000 was for working capital to finance increasing business and $22,000,000 was to reduce interest charges by retiring 5 ½%, 6 ½% and 7% obligations of Goodrich and its subsidiary...
...deadline came & went. Out of A. F. of L. marched 1,100,000 members of United Mine Workers; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers; Iron, Steel & Tin Workers; United Automobile Workers; United Rubber Workers; Flat Glass Workers...
...some new charred oak kegs so he could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail. Red Currie got number 45F8575, a pair of stylish Sizzle Pants for $3.65. Sylvester Merrick, colored, got a new clothesline. Ira Pirtle ordered some rubber collars ("easily cleaned with a damp cloth,") number 33F8244, at three for 60?. The Widow Holcomb sent for a bottle of Youth Tone black hair dye, 8F3882, for $2.29. -Behind these orders lay the aspirations, tastes, customs, needs of a drowsy, mismanaged, tough Oklahoma country town that boasted a third-class...
...tentatively at his opponent until Louis' right fist exploded on his jaw. Thereafter his efforts, devoted exclusively to self-defense, were even less successful. Louis scored two knockdowns in the second round, two more in the third. After the fourth knockdown Fisticuffer Sharkey shook his head, removed his rubber mouth-guard, lay down while the referee counted him out. Next day. sports writers told what they thought had happened: Fisticuffer Louis had resumed functioning as a "superfighter...