Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew aught of motors and who were able to push near enough to the cars to see, sensed at once that the Show held nothing new (of importance) from an engineering standpoint Certain cars, it is true, had effected minor improvements: additional bearings to the crank shaft (Dodge); rubber cushioning of engines (Buick); adding of a fourth speed (Paige); crankcase ventilation (Oldsmobile). But all of these features have been used before...
...Crimson five man offense at the end of the first period had only succeeded in holding the Brown sextet to a 1 to 1 tie. Zarakov and Tudor cooperated on the first goal, the latter slamming the rubber past Fessenden. Chase scored the only goal for Brown, receiving a pass near the net from Binns, who poked the rubber past Adams, starting in place of Morrill...
Junk. Guffaws, not intended by the author, greeted this confection; Playwright Edwin Self is advertising manager for the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio. All praise to Dayton had he written a play, but has he? Junkman Ernest John (corpulent Sydney Greenstreet) has informal chats with God; radiates sunshine; feels led to rob a bank to help an aged invalid lady; with approval of the author does so. Old Sal (Emma Dunn) after rampaging all she can to offset the drivel, climaxes with a nerve-wrecking unexpected shriek?as Ernest John, in a large chair, slowly dies...
...department, that Governor General Wood's military advisers be replaced with civil experts, that the Filipinos be given increasing internal autonomy. Land Laws. The Philippine legislature should amend the land laws, so as to attract U. S. capital to develop, on a large scale, the production of rubber, coffee, sugar, rice, etc. The U. S. Congress should not attempt to interfere with these land laws. Banking. The Federal Reserve system should be extended to the Philippines. Also, Federal land banks should be established to loan money to Filipino farmers at reasonable rates. They now pay from...
...warden had the box on his desk. He showed it with an ironic comment to his visitor. Once the box had contained Prince Albert tobacco; now its contents were more interesting. A little rubber sack. A hypodermic needle. A broken spoon. An envelope of morphin. . . . Drug peddlers, delivering narcotics to prisoners on the island, do not always drop their orders from the bridge. An ordinary postoffice envelope, embossed with the head of George Washington, has a hollow behind the raised stamp...