Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sole is tacked to the bottom of the "last" and then trimmed to fit it perfectly. Next, the upper is fitted to the "last" with repeated stretching and tacking. From there, the steel sole shank and outer soles are applied and the heel is built up. Finally a corrugated rubber outer sole is applied and the finishing touches of grooving the heels and waterproofing all exposed stitching take place. The finished product is a perfectly fitted, ox-blood colored boot, resplendent with brass lacing hooks...
...climbing boots, too, have their well known users. Numbered among these is James B. Conant '14, who had the usual leather soles and hobnails on his replaced with cleated rubber soles...
Next day, B. F. Goodrich offered 16,000 rubber workers a 10?-an-hour pension and insurance program. The Goodrich offer supplemented a small program already in force-one to which workers contributed. The rubber workers' union accepted and the workers ended a month-old strike. Then the International Harvester Co. offered 65,000 employees a 10?-an-hour welfare package-on condition that workers also kick in something...
...Toronto, Ont. last week, slender, jug-eared L. S. Buckmaster returned from four months in limbo to win re-election as president of the C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers of America. Fired from the presidency after a Pottstown, Pa. local president charged him with trying to disrupt the local and fomenting a riot at one of its meetings, Conservative Buckmaster cleared himself in a seven-hour debate at the union's annual convention, then beat his perennial rival, George Bass, for another term...
...Goodrich Co, and CIO United Rubber Workers signed a new contract yesterday, ending a 34-day strike for 15,000 workers in seven states. The new contract is subject to approval of the union's general executive board...