Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia game 7-4 on the spring trip, Ingalls, Varsity mound mainstay for two years, developed a sore arm, which has kept him inactive to date. In practice yesterday the big righthander gave evidence that his layoff has in no way affected his speed or control on the rubber...
...crocodile anything red and biteable is edible meat. Consequently, when Imperial Airways Ltd. began installing big, red, rubber buoys at stations in the Sudan and British East Africa (Malakal, Kampala, Kisumu) to moor their flying boats, crocodiles went for the buoys with enthusiasm, punctured and sank them. Last week, Imperial's engineers in London completed designs for a crocodile-proof buoy-a strong steel cylinder buffered with a semipneumatic fender impervious to tropic teeth...
...this is being written it seems probable the Reorganization Bill will be on its way to the White House for signature-before this column is published. . . . We may look for a mournful recital of the supineness and rubber-stampedness of a cowering Congress that could not summon enough courage to stand out against an overbearing Chief Executive." Day that the above premature excerpt from his weekly handout. Dispelling the Fog, was scheduled to be released to the press last week, the Democratic National Committee's publicity director Charles ("The Mike") Michelson sent out a hasty request to editors that...
Willow Joe Penny is a lanky, happy-go-lucky fellow who finds "a power of music" in everything from rubber bands to squeaking shoes, but especially in jugs. His powerful ambition is to be a showboat musician. Mrs. Penny's ambition, more powerful than Willow Joe's, is to get a home on solid ground and be respectable. So Willow Joe grits his teeth and builds cabins, which floods always wash away. But when hard times come, Mrs. Penny lets him go to work on a dilapidated showboat...
Last week rubber was selling at 10.31? on the New York Commodity Exchange, cheapest price in three years. Yet to appear was any sign of industrial revival sufficient to bounce rubber up again. But the I. R. R. C.'s 1934 agreement on planting bases expires this year. So the I. R. R. C. again met in London last week, this time to establish not only the export quota for the next three months, but a new planting limit. Recognizing the present slump, I. R. R. C. set the quarterly quota at 60%. Optimistic for the long pull, however...