Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidency for a third term (TIME, May 23). Parisian reporters called President King "representative of that type of African who is outwardly Europeanized, but is still at heart a fine, genuine black." Beaming, President King told these newsgatherers how heartily he welcomes the great U. S. Firestone rubber plantation development in Liberia (TIME...
...delighted! Dee-lighted!" said Mr. King in English.* "The Firestone lease occupies only about 1/25 of our rubber lands; and, personally, I like to think of Liberia as the gateway to West Africa by which American capital, manufactures and opinions may enter and spread across all Africa...
Journeying to Providence yesterday for the second time this season, the University nine downed Brown again, 5 to 6. J. N. Barbee who held the Bruins to four hits in the former engagement, was touched for seven safeties, but held his foes from the rubber...
Other items include 100 packages of diaper cloth; electric lamps; 200 specially-designed book-ends to keep the books on the Library shelves from slumping; rubber-wheeled trucks to go between the Library stacks and to make no noise while they are going; a cabinet designed to hold and index 20,000 lantern slides; a museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor...
Under the management committee Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. soon began to make profits. It is the largest company in the industry. But ordinary Goodyear stockholders received no share of the profits. The money went to pay interest on bonds and other new indebtedness incurred by the Dillon, Read refinancing. The management committee, particularly Mr. Dillon and Mr. Sherwin, were mismanaging, cried stockholders...