Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days of the gold rush to California, when ships laden with optimists were dashing madly from the East coast to the West, around Cape Horn, in ISO days. Eastern papers blazoning forth "California advertisements"-sales of trunks, guidebooks, tools, cough-drops, coffee grinders, collapsible boats, patent medicines, rubber garments- every conceivable article a gold digger might conceivably require-even one enterprising concern announcing: "Ho for California! Last, not least! Persons going to the gold regions are seriously advised to take, among other necessaries, a good lot of monuments and tombstones. A great saving can be effected by having their inscriptions...
...annual report of the U. S. Rubber Co. for 1923 showed net income of $7,392,657, or $2.28 a share, as compared with $7,692,039 or $2.65 a share in 1922. The fact that net sales rose from $168,786,350 in 1922 to $186,261,381 last year shows that the Company's business was carried on at diminishing rate of profit...
...rubber and tire companies are not just now in a very jovial mood. Kelly-Springfield's statement for the year ending Dec. 31, 1923, is, to some extent at least, typical of the industry...
...slides shown in connection with the talk revealed many different kinds of plants and animal life. Dwarf palms, cactus, larch fir, and rubber trees were the most interesting of the species in that tropical jungle...
...Knickerbockers at 1 o'clock tomorrow. The men making the trip will be Austin, Beals, Burgess, Chase, Crosby, Cumings, Gardner, Graves, Hammond, Harding, Hill, Hodder, Howe, Newell, Pratt, and Walker. Major Moore, Coaches Winsor, Clafin, and Wilde, Dr. Parmenter, Managers Potter, Cushman, and Woodworth, and John Fadden, the rubber, will complete the party. Woodworth, newly appointed second assistant manager, will leave for New Haven today to make advance arrangements...