Word: rubbering
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...remove his overgarments at about the time his rivals began to have serious trouble clearing the bar. He took off his flannel trousers at 6:4, his sweatshirt at 6:5. On his feet he wore shoes of kangaroo skin, made to order, with pin spikes and crepe rubber soles, lighter than those of his confreres. Spectators noticed peculiarities in his style, occasioned by the fact that he learned to high jump without the supervision of an experienced coach, at his home in Whitestone, L. I. He circled slightly coming to the standard, kicked up with his inside foot, took...
Last year B. F- Goodrich and Good-year Tire 6 Rubber took their inventory losses out of earnings, whereas in 1930 they were taken out of surplus. On a comparable basis last year B. F. Goodrich lost $8,815,000 against $10,309.000 lost in 1930. But Goodyear made $1,328,000 against...
...tons, about 800.000 more than expected. Copper sold at 6? for export, a record low, while domestic sellers offered it at 6¼, equal to the bottom price, and one offered to throw in 50 shares of Anaconda or Kennecott with each 1,000-ton purchase. Rubber (of which there is reputedly a 16-month supply in the U. S.) plunged through its old low of 4.1^ per Ib., when the February delivery sold...
...attitude toward the industry of stock promotion it is slightly less informative than farcical. Turkish baths restore William Powell, discovered drunk in a ginmill, to a condition in which he is fit to undertake the organization of a campaign to sell stock in a company for making rubber out of sewage. Vastly successful at this enterprise, he is presently discomforted to learn that the inventor, upon whose formulas the company's production plans depend, has disappeared. He is even more discomforted when the inventor reappears and proves himself to be a lunatic. While manipulating his concern, Powell is harassed...
When a company shows two consecutive deficits of $45 and $38 on its first preferred stock, it is about time for that company to retire. Fisk Rubber Co. bondholders had some such idea in January 1931, when they threw the company into receivership after it failed to pay off an $8,000,000 note. Most people thought the last had been heard of Fisk...