Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-year-old Sir Eric Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...
...final session, Crosby, the rangy Freshman wing, started the winners on the scoring path again with two well placed drives which found the Eli net before the goal guard could set himself Stanley finished the counting for the Crimson Freshmen when he drove the rubber past Kaehrle in the middle of the last session. In a last minute drive the losers found the Harvard cage twice to finish the evening's scoring. Captain Cady, of the Yale sextet, was carried from the ice just before the final whistle with a badly injured leg, after playing a brilliant game...
Tire prices were fixed just before Jan. 1 at about 40% higher than prevailed last summer. Last week two large manufacturers announced reductions. The list of the United States Rubber & Tire Co. dropped 10% on first line tires, 3½% to 7½% on second line makes. President Harvey Firestone of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. ordered a 5% to 12% abatement in his first line prices...
Crosby, 1929 right wing, was absent, and the Freshman forward line did not function as smoothly as usual. The formidable Putnam-Tudor combination produced one goal in the first period, however, Putnam carrying through the defense and passing to Tudor who shot the rubber home...
...start of the final period, neither team risking a decisive rally. Finally the Tigers descended on masse, and a scrimmage with several men on the ice resulted as Cumings blocked Davis' hard drive. The puck trickled out to the boards, and while the Nassau forwards were searching for the rubber under Harvard's prone sentinel, Scott dashed up the right lane, swerved pass Wilkinson, and passed Cole-brook to put the Crimson ahead...