Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accepted an offer satisfying 82% of his demands. After a month of false rumors of agreement correspondents would believe the welcome truth only if uttered by drawn-faced, cripple Snowden himself. As he passed through the gates of the Binnenhof at two a. m., hobbling wearily on two rubber-tipped canes, they surged about him shouting, "Is everything all right...
...Rubber. On 114 acres of land at Akron, Ohio are manufactured some 45,000 automobile tires and 35,000 pairs of rubber boots and shoes every day. On 96 acres of land at Watertown, Mass, are manufactured some 3,500 automobile tires, 150 solid truck tires and 75,000 pairs rubber boots and rubber soled shoes daily. The two will be united. B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron last week arranged to take over all the assets & liabilities of Hood Rubber Co. of Watertown, paying one share of Goodrich for every two shares of Hood outstanding...
...Detroit. The world's first all-metal dirigible, built stubbier than a Zeppelin, was successfully tried out for the first time. Built experimentally for the Navy by Aircraft Development Co. (subsidiary of Detroit Aircraft Corp.) after designs of Ralph Hazlett Upson, onetime Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sausage balloon and blimp designer, the all-metal dirigible has a skin of aleled (duralumin core with surface coating of pure aluminum...
Stumping about the conference painfully on his two rubber-tipped canes, the Rt. Hon. Snowden seemed a puny match for his Latin opponents: the delegations of France, Belgium and Italy, marshaled by doughty French Prime Minister Aristide Briand. It was a queer tussle. M. Briand is at least three times as great in girth as the frail Yorkshireman, and nine years his senior in statecraft. The Latins, supported by Japan and with Germany's blocky Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann neutral, were in solid phalanx pressing for adoption of the Young Plan unchanged. They were satisfied with the size...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (World's largest in rubber. Daily output of 95,000 tires and tubes, 400,000 pairs of rubber heels. Reorganization of 1921 followed by much litigation, further reorganization in 1927, present management potent and prosperous.) Net profit, first half...