Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surgeons at Columbus' New McKinley Hospital tapped his chest with a hollow, apirating needle, drew off some pus, a minor operation which gave Switchman Cramer some relief. Fluid again accumulated. So surgeons last week cut through his sixth rib (the routine procedure for an empyema operation), put a rubber tube into the opening, let the fluid drain off. With the fluid pressure removed the heart eased back into normal location on the left side. Probably the patient will live...
...boards of education and private schools, and sent free to ru- ral districts. This venture was found financially impracticable. The present prospect of many school children learning geography and science from "shots" of Patagonian flocks and herds, Chinese temples, the home life of the Paramecium, or of "Making Rubber in Ohio," seems excellent. The Eastman Kodak Co. is one of the largest corporations in the U. S. The National Education Association has some 161,000 members. And added to these agencies will be the huge publicity corps of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., Will H. Hays, president...
...humble shoebag, heavy with potency, set amidst the whispering grandeur of mattresses, old iron, papers and rubber tires, joggled tracklessly through the streets of Springfield, Mass., borne on a junk wagon to ignominious barter. The frowzy-whiskered junkman shifted about in his seat when a motorcycle policeman ordered him to the curb, fluttered two dirty palms in astonishment. The officer settled on a blue mattress as a hawk onto a mouse, prospected deeper into the indiscernible vagaries in the rear of a junk-wagon, retrieved the humble shoebag, departed triumphantly with it for its heartbroken owner - one Peter Audaim - after...
Filipinos. Oracle Thompson was an interesting exhibit before the joint opening session of Filipino Senate and House. He was applauded half-heartedly (Governor General Leonard Wood was not applauded at all); he spoke of "public lands . . . rubber . . . righteousness . . . loyalty;" he heard a unanimous resolution, agreed upon by both Houses, informing President Coolidge of the intense desire of the Filipinos for immediate, complete, absolute independence. Colonel Thompson had another entry for his notebook, along with the item that the night before he had drunk champagne to Mr. Coolidge's health at the proposal of Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate...
...Rubber. While there seems to be a difference of opinion concerning exactly what the different peoples of the Philippines want, nevertheless U. S. business men have a substantial suspicion that Colonel Carmi A. Thompson wants to find a few hundred thousand acres for the cultivation of rubber by American industries...