Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill before the House last week was designed to give U. S. industries immunity under the anti-trust laws in collective buying of crude rubber, potash, sisal "or other raw materials or products of nature." The opposition which sprang up declared that such a measure would injure the U. S. consumer. New York's vociferous Black sought to belittle Candidate Hoover, to whose warnings against the British rubber monopoly, the measure was traceable. Up stood Connecticut's tall Tilson, the Republican leader. He called attention to Premier Baldwin's announcement, the day before in Parliament, that...
...Rubbers are not romantic. Neither are auto tires, nursing nipples, hot water bags or rubber boots. But last week rubber-romance kindled in the quiet, Gothic depths of the House of Commons. There Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pronounced a few matter-of-fact words which altered the destiny of Britain's wide-flung rubber plantations in Malaya. Straits Settlements and Ceylon. To U. S. motorists the pronouncement meant that raw rubber suitable for tire-making will probably be stabilized in price at a figure less than half of what was paid last year...
...York Stock Exchange. In Amsterdam the buzz of tickers ceased to have meaning, last week, for Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Removed to a hospital, she lay at first unconscious, and later sphinxlike by advice of her attorneys. Her husband, forgotten by the press, had been a rich, respected rubber merchant of the firm of Matthes & Bormeester...
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Died. James B. Ford, 84, vice president of the United States Rubber Co. and commodore since 1915 of the Larchmont Yacht Club; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. At one time one of the wealthiest men in the U. S., he left a fortune estimated...