Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clubbers often see him bounding bull-like in the Henderson version of a rumba. He is his own boss as board chairman of the Research Institute of America (a business economic service); he can say what he wants once a week as radio news commentator for O'Sullivan Rubber Co. ("America's No. 1 Heel"). His onetime $12,000 income is now over...
...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...
...Tricks. Back in 1821 the first fire fighter in the family, James Boyd, invented the first rubber-lined cotton hose to replace the riveted leather hose then in use. He proudly received a patent signed by President James Monroe himself. Ever since, the Boyds have been inventing and manufacturing equipment to fight fires. To learn the tricks, unbookish Mr. Boyd left the University of Pennsylvania (he was having too much fun to bother about graduating anyway), and went to work in his father's businesses, James Boyd & Brother, and National Fire Protection Co. He decided to think...
From a carrier raid, a pilot failed to return. Forced down in the vast stretches of the Pacific, he lay in his tiny rubber boat. A U.S. submarine finally spotted...
...surfaced, slowly drew close to the yellow raft. Crewmen on the deck saw that the airman was sound asleep under his rubber sheet. From a distance of six feet, a subman bellowed...