Word: rusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nile soil. Only in Brazil and part of the Argentine are there real possibilities of increasing cotton production to the point where the Cotton Belt could be dropped from the list of world cotton exporters. But those areas lack the South's cheap labor. The threat from the Rust cotton picker (TIME, March 23) or improved versions of that machine, is less to employment in the South than in South America where it would overcome the lack of labor...
...Because of their Socialist objections to throwing thousands of southern workers out of employment Inventors John and Mack Rust have refused to place on the open market their mechanical (1 sugar cane thresher, 2 cotton picker, 3 sugar beet digger, 4 weaver, 5 tobacco cutter...
...wing and weed be indiscriminately rust...
...Eastern Gas and Koppers Gas grew out of a patented coke oven invented by a German named Heinrich Koppers, who improved the method of saving the gas and other coal derivatives formerly blown away in thick smoke. His process caught the eye of Pittsburgh's late Henry Bedinger Rust, who took his ideas for exploiting the Koppers patents to the Mellon family offices...
...boomed the Koppers business because it cut off the German supply of such explosive coal derivatives as ammonia, benzol, toluol. For three years Koppers' Rust built a coke plant every 60 days, a benzol-toluol plant every six weeks. Since these plants needed structural steel, Mr. Rust drew in the Pittsburgh steel team of Charles Donnell Marshall and Howard Hale McClintic. Today the parent Koppers Co. controls at least $400,000,000 worth of properties, has only 16 stockholders. The Mellons own a clear 50% of Koppers' stock, Mr. Marshall 16%, Mr. McClintic 9%, the Rust family about...