Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music season's most trumpeted visitor. After a cocktail party and supper in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, last week, the young Irishman said: "Sure and I haven't done so bad." For his first radio appearance, the sponsoring Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. filled Carnegie Hall with bigwigs of business and music. Lynch sang such McCormack stock in trade as Macushla, Neapolitan Love Song and Che Gelida Manina from Puccini's La Bohème -and his voice sounded very nearly as clean and sweet, his Irish legato as rippling as McCormack...
...Rubber Game. In the cluster of twelve companies these men boss, AVCO has a line of consumer's products ranging all the way from self-sterilizing toilet seats to marine engines.* It has a smoothly functioning distribution system to sell them. And it has a fat backlog in orders. But like every other company, it has had trouble getting into production to fill those orders. For the first nine months this year, the AVCO family turned out $100,000,000 worth of products, lost money doing it. But last month it appeared to have turned the corner, moved into...
Three months ago, the Combined Rubber Committee, composed of six countries, had the world rubber situation all figured out. The supply of crude rubber, the Committee thought, would not stretch enough to meet demand for a year or two. To prevent prices from soaring, the price of crude was pegged at 23½ ? a lb., f.o.b. Far Eastern ports. The British Government agreed to buy all Malayan rubber offered at this price. But by last week the pegged price meant little. So much rubber was pouring into Malayan ports that the price was dropping...
...have always believed, perhaps naively, that the purpose of a trial is to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused, not to add a legalizing rubber stamp of approval to whatever happens to be the prevailing public opinion on the case...
Died. Charles W. Seiberling, 85, longtime rubber tycoon, who, with his brother Frank, founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., lost control of it in the '20s, bounced back with the Seiberling Rubber Co.; in Akron...