Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carboloy or widia, shaped into a cutting tool, carves through cast iron, steel, copper, glass, porcelain, bakelite, mica, rubber, their combinations and what not. Carboloy or widia does everything that the finest, hardest tool steel can do, and many another job. Also they cut at much faster speeds. So efficient are they in stepping up machine shop production and in reducing shop costs, that every machinist must use the new metal, even though its present price is $500 a pound, almost the price of platinum, almost twice the price of gold...
Fruits, vegetables. Trading in futures (raw silk, rubber, cocoa, not yet harvested) permits the producer and buyer to protect himself against unforeseen crop disasters. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange offers this hedging-by-speculation privilege in butter and eggs only. Last week its members considered new commodity admissions-other milk products, vegetables, fruits, canned foods. Cheesemakers, potato and apple growers, canners would, they argued, enjoy the financial protection against plant and animal scourges. Chicago commodity brokers would, obviously, enjoy increased commissions...
...York Stock Exchange, last week, U. S. Rubber climbed steadily from 44½ to 52½. The du Fonts were mentioned. It was no secret that Irenee, Constance, Mary B., A. Felix & Bertha du Pont had become, within the last year, large stockholders of U. S. Rubber. Equally well known was the fact that du Pont-Legate Henry Davis had recently been chosen a director. Accordingly, at the end of the week, President & Chairman Charles B. Seger resigned. To his office was elected F. B. Davis Jr., President of du Pont Viscoloid Co. The change meant that the du Fonts...
...swept, between Los Angeles and San Diego. Every so often the Question Mark took on fuel. This required uncanny air jockeying. Only, 15 feet directly above the Question Mark flew a fuelling plane piloted by Capt. R. G. Hoyt or Lieut. Odas Moon. From this plane dangled a thin rubber hose. While the planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome by fumes. But later...
...White Man's Rubber", a film dealing with the manner in which rubber is gathered in the tropical jungle and the work on the rubber plantations of the East Indies, shows the manner in which rubber is obtained from plants and finally manufactured into the finished product...