Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marathons, and flag-pole sitting no longer pays dividends, it is not at all remarkable that Yankee ingenuity has provided another spectacle for the vicarious enjoyment of the multitude, which combines an element of sport with the best features of the aforementioned pastimes--namely, the one hundred and fifty rubber bridge match of Ely Culbertson and wife us. Hal Sims and wife at Crockferd's Club in New York...
...type as well as the bridge expert, there are thrills aplenty in the daily reports of progress wholly apart from the cards and skill in handling them. In the ninety-seventh rubber or thereabouts, for instance, Mr. Culbertson threw down his hand with words which even kibitzers lack the temerity to repeat, and remarked that he "refused to play another card until Hal Sims had removed his big feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband...
...more alarming to motormen last week than Organizer Dillon's talk were actual preparations for a strike in Akron, Ohio's tire & rubber plants of Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone. Flatly rejected by managers had been demands for abolition of company unions, recognition of A. F. of L.'s United Rubber Workers union. Late in the week the National Labor Relations Board hopefully stepped in, demanded that Firestone cease violating NRA's Section 73. The Board accused the company of refusing to allow its employes to elect their own representatives for collective bargaining, of favoring and financing...
...Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President; Stephen Crane, Spanish War correspondent, author (The Red Badge of Courage); President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America; Designer John Fitch who built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part...
...summer, according to Scotland Yard operatives, Cinemactor Arthur met a London banker named Stephen Raphael, took a suite with him, made off with a diamond-&-sapphire bracelet worth $1,650. On the Cannes beach, he met Mary Hewitt Jopling, 18, daughter of President Morgan W. Jopling of New York Rubber Co. By telling her the bracelet was his mother's, he persuaded her to wear it back to the U. S. Banker Raphael and Scotland Yard traced Arthur, said he later reclaimed and sold the bracelet...