Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rubber Duty-free...
...selected Paul L. Haid, 44, to be supreme arbiter over their underwriting of 75% of the U. S. business. Industries from corsets to axe-handles have their "institutes," to settle disputes. But more & more tycoons are coming to believe that an absolute "tsar" is the only good solution. Rubber companies recently sought George Taylor Bishop as their ruler (TIME, April 18). Oil has often been on the verge of appointing one. The prime examples of U. S. business tsars are cinema's Will H. Hays, baseball's Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
...mind was dimly echoing a name once famed in Chicago, "Heinie Keboobler." That was the name of two famed oldtime saloons -one on Quincy Street, one on South State. Both were full of practical-joking devices-stairways which suddenly folded under you, telephones that spit in your eye, rubber pretzels, dribble glasses, electric wiring to give a shock with your change at the bar or to the unwary in the lavatory...
...Bloomington. Ind. ; and tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) James Melton from Ocala, Fla. In 1929, shortly before the quartet took its first European tour, young James Melton married Marjorie Louise McClure, daughter of Novelist Marjorie Barkley McClure. The Revelers earn their big money now broadcasting for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live in an expensive penthouse apartment, keep a sailing yacht on the Hudson...
...early rounds, 16 ping-pong tables were set up in the Waldorf ball room, with eight feet of free space behind each. Most of the contestants wore leather-soled shoes because rubber ones gripped the carpet and made it slide. They wore blue shirts, to improve the background. One S. A. Hamid, a Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm...