Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rooder and Main Reef Mines. The big money rolled in when other gold houses awoke to the richness of the Free State deposits and had to lease from Erleigh (TIME, April 29, 1946). Erleigh built up a South African empire of 152 companies-gold mines, diamond fields, coal mines, rubber factories, hotels and cinemas-valued at some...
Died. Samuel Crowther, 67, veteran journalist, pamphleteer, literary collaborator (My Life and Work, Today and Tomorrow, Edison As I Know Him, all with Henry Ford; Men and Rubber, with Harvey Firestone); after long illness; in Boston...
...news in his reports to small-fry customers last week. Now at the peak of its pre-Christmas hustle, the toy industry is shipping a greater variety of playthings than it has turned out since 1941. On retail toy shelves there is many an eye-catching new number, and rubber and metal toys not seen in any quantity in five years. The bad news is that prices are higher (about 10%) and the supply of some items, such as electric trains and dolls, is far short of demand. (One big store estimated that it would run out of trains...
...Rubber Game Nears...
...became evident that rescue operations, no matter how desperate, had to begin-the plane had begun to leak and many passengers were approaching the point of hysteria. Captain Cronk signaled a suggestion that the chief pilot call for volunteers. Three of the seamen got calmly into a rubber raft, were let down toward the cutter on a line and were safely picked up by coast guardsmen...