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Word: rubbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finale, Producer White and several members of his cast, dressed in rubber garments, descend into a large pool of water, emerge soaked and smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...remote Belgian Congo; in introducing machines to 338,000 pupils in 12,000 European school classes. He announced growth of electrical machine sales which are now half of all sales and which he predicts will eventually be the only kind. Then he mentioned machines capable of sewing heavy leather, rubber, belting, canvas, window shades, bags, mattresses, umbrellas, airplane and automobile upholstery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Red S | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Color. U. S. names are rare in the dye trade. One of the oldest U. S. manufacturers of dry color (dye precipitate powdered and used for paint, printers' ink. rubber coatings) is Ansbacher Corp., formed in 1857. Powerful competitor is G. Siegle Corp. of America, segregated from G. Siegle Corp. of Germany during the War. Last week the two firms merged to form Ansbacher-Siegle Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...names of the Americans are important. Paul Weeks Litchfield is chief of the U. S. lighter-than-air ship industry. He began with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900 as a factory superintendent and built Goodyear's first tire with his own hands. Before the War he persuaded Goodyear's Founder-President Frank A. Seiberling to build spherical balloons for the U. S. air services. Before, during and since the War, Mr. Litchfield built sausage balloons and nonrigid dirigibles (blimps; for the Army and Navy. In 1924 he and Edward G. Wilmer, Mr. Seiberling's successor as Goodyear president, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Zeppelining | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Ingenious Colonel Green has many mechanical interests. He has a radio station at his estate in South Dartmouth, Mass. He cooperates with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Goodyear Rubber Co. in aircraft and is considering building a 1,000 foot beacon for airship guidance (a taller structure than any in the world). He is said to use an adding machine to compute mah jong scores. He spends his winters in Texas, his summers in Massachusetts, has five girls as wards whom he educates. He disapproves of charity and charge accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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