Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the War he solved transport problems for the British General Staff and was rewarded with the First Lordship of the Admiralty (1917-18). Intensely practical, he soon secured appointment to deal with reconstruction problems as Minister of Transport (1919-21). Since then two industries have engrossed him: Dunlop Rubber, and Imperial Airways Ltd., the veteran cross channel flying firm of whose board he is active Chairman. On rails, on rubber, and on air his high achievements leap and lead...
...vote as equals in a new "House of Parliament" hurried, last week, representatives of the toilers and officers of the vast Dunlop Rubber Co., near Birmingham. Each proud, contented toiler-"M.P." had been elected by the secret ballots of 150 constituents. A "Constitution" stood ratified by the "House of Parliament," and to it all Dun-loppers pledged allegiance and obedience...
...newsmen. "No, not a damn." Then he remarked, casually, pontifically, that Hoover was the man (see p. 7). Then he remarked that he and son Edsel expected to fly to South America this summer in a Ford-Stout plane. Again, that he and Thomas A. Edison were working on rubber raising (he had said this before, but the public forgets). Then he said "we are building a new Diesel engine-burning crude oil instead of gasoline-and we hope it will deliver one horsepower for each pound it weighs. I am personally laying it out although a crowd...
...Seiberling was once the president and life of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ; he was one of Akron's rubber barons...
...those days, Mr. Davis was a director of the U. S. Rubber Co. The intention of the men who had incorporated the U. S. Rubber Co. in 1892 had been to merge the many rubber manufacturers of the U. S. They did gather together into an efficient union scattered makers of diverse rubber products in the East, but they could not persuade the individualistic Akron barons to merge...