Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ponts as a civil engineer. Since then he has had one du Pont job after another: black powder, sporting powder, guncotton. smokeless powder, cellulose. General Motors, Pyroxylin, safety glass. Four years ago the du Ponts gave him the toughest job of all: made him president of U. S. Rubber just a few months before the crash. U. S. Rubber, the only great non-Akron rubber company, has had a hard row to hoe, even for a rubber company. Its annual deficits have been...
...commercial paper house of Goldman, Sachs had grown wealthy and mighty during 30 years, floating the securities of companies that became great-Sears, Roebuck, General Cigar, Studebaker, Cluett Peabody, Woolworth, Endicott Johnson, Postum, Continental Can, May Department Stores, Pillsbury Flour, National Dairy Products, Goodrich Rubber, Lambert Pharmacal, Gimbel Brothers, Warner Brothers. Goldman Sachs had a bright partner named Waddill Catchings, Tennessee-born Harvard graduate who had been by successive and increasing turns lawyer, steelman and J. P. Morgan assistant in purchasing supplies for the Allies during the War. In December 1928 Mr. Catchings made history by launching for his firm...
...relation of Chemistry to industry is one of the most important practical applications of chemical knowledge. The common industrial processes for manufacture of coal gas, soap, rubber, paint, heavy chemicals, etc., are made clear by explanation from the industrial rather than the laboratory point of view, and a series of twelve trips to representative factories of the neighborhood gives the student an opportunity to gain first-hand ideas about how industrial large-scale operations are carried...
...wheat-growing which may set an example at London. Major oil producers met in Washington fortnight ago, recommended action to the White House which would hold the U. S. flow down to 2,000,000 bbl. per day. Many have been the conferences between producers of copper, nitrate and rubber during the last several years in vain attempts to control output, raise prices. At London such attempts may become accomplishments...
...Firestone's brand has never been relished by the heads of his three potent competitors-Goodyear's Litchfield, U. S. Rubber's Davis, Goodrich's Tew. Until last fortnight when Mr. Tew assumed the unpopular rôle, Mr. Firestone almost always took the lead in slashing prices. But so fast flew the chit-chat about their opinions of Mr. Firestone that when Mr. Firestone wrote his stockholders last fortnight that he was cutting not prices but dividends, he declared: "There has been much said, written and portrayed by cartoons to promote the thought that there...