Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the great days of 1919, booms and depressions have come and gone, but the tire business has remained overbuilt and generally unsatisfactory. Gradually the common dividends of the rubber companies have been suspended, and recently an acute attack of cutting preferred dividends has set in. U. S. Rubber has valiantly paid on its 8% preferred issue, but evidently with much effort. Now Kelly-Springfield has passed to 1½% quarterly installment on its 6% preferred stock, and the stock-holders must in viewing the company's immediate future be stout optimists to obey the classic injunction to "Keep...
...peanuts. It occurred to Dr. Antoine Kolodny of the University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went to Gary. The carcass was opened, the ribs broken with an ax, the dissection begun. It was found that the elephant had an inflammation of the bowels, but the actual cause of death...
Harvard caught a bit of the big league atmosphere yesterday afternoon at Fen way Park and played like champions, winning the rubber game from Princeton 5 to 3 in ten torrid innings. With the exception of a flurry in the seventh inning when Princeton bunched four of her seven hits and scored all three of her runs, Spalding had the Tigers eating out of his hand. He pitched a game worthy of a big league setting...
Between 10 and 12 o'clock Tuesday morning, Mr. J. N. Thomas, vice-president of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohio, will hold conferences in the Faculty Room of the Union with undergraduates interested in securing employment in the production, sales, and research departments of his company. Appointments for these conferences may be made by signing a blue book pasted at the Union...
...Neil, the visiting pitcher, was knocked off the rubber in that contest, but he is likely to do much better this year. He has not yet lost a game, and in his last start on the mound he struck out 13 batters, defeating Allen-Chalmers School...