Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President became a patient performer in their hands. He put on rubber boots, waded in his favorite pool, cast his fly again & again. The crowd and the photographers' cries for "more action'' scared the trout away but the presidential fly whisked neatly to & fro, caught no trees or brushes. Then the President acted out a homely role on the lawn before his cabin. He propped a book open on his knee, played with his dogs, strolled about. Mrs. Hoover brought out her knitting. Changing to riding breeches, the President had his horse Billy brought up from...
...Place de la Republique lie the great grimy sheds of the Halles Centrales, the central markets of Paris. Tourists returning from the theatres pass long lines of high-wheeled wagons, piled high with cabbages. Few ever notice the long rows of stalls outside the market where weary camelots sell rubber dolls, postcards, hair oil, lace doilies, patent corkscrews...
...description of a woman's every significant movement during parturition. He invented it while earning his M. A. degree in obstetrics & gynecology at Western Reserve University. Details of the Dodek device appeared in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics. Essentially it consists of a plunger which pushes against the soft rubber lid of an air container. Every movement of the plunger changes the air pressure in the container. The changing pressure agitates a pen which writes a zigzag line on a moving sheet of paper. An aluminum tripod holds the device so that the exposed end of the plunger rests gently...
...Nakashima lives & talks goldfish 51 weeks a year. During the other week he watches the World Series baseball games, cheers diffidently for St. Louis when St. Louis is represented. He is in his late 30's. At work he wears rubber knee boots and a huge straw hat. He has found that the goldfish business booms with Depression because goldfish are a cheap form of amusement. He is now experimenting with diets to determine how much influence feeding has on the color and marking of the fish. Next winter he will go to Japan to seek new and strange varieties...
During the month sugar soared and. with it, cocoa. Metals turned firmer and rubber sold at the best levels since mid-May. Cotton moved in a narrow range but last week there began to be talk of low plant resistance to weevils because of a lack of fertilizer. Cement prices were upped last week for the first time in three years...