Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from a year-long run on Broadway, the man with the India-rubber legs and the pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...
...continental event," pontificated President Perón. Brazil's press had almost nothing to say. A Brazilian proposal for joint mediation in Paraguay's stalemated civil war stalled. The tired topic of a wheat-for-rubber trade treaty stood where it had before-on the shelf...
...even Paul Bunyan himself could not do without Johnny Inkslinger, the master figurer who kept a piece of rubber as big as a barrel on the end of his nose. With three shakes of his head, Johnny Inkslinger could wipe a page clean of figures. Last week Henry Kaiser tried the same vast trick...
...Many Tires. The three biggest U.S. mail-order houses (Sears, Roebuck & Co., Montgomery Ward & Co. Inc., Spiegel, Inc.) cut tire prices as much as 12%. But tires were not the only things catching up with demand in the rubber business. Since rubber was decontrolled on April 1, the price of natural rubber has dropped more than 5? a pound to 18½?. Rubber for delivery in September (futures) dropped to around 16?, less than the 1939 price. Caught by the drop was the RFC, which bought & sold all U.S. rubber until April 1. It owns 110,000 tons of salable...
...televises an average of 28 hours a week, and about 23 of them have the same announcer. Robert S. (for nothing) Stanton's busy schedule includes all Giant baseball games at the Polo Grounds, two evenings a week of prize fights, a studio show (U.S. Rubber's corny Campus Hoopla) and nearly all of NBC's "remotes" (out-of-studio telecasts), such as the U.N. Palestine hearings...