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Candy, coal and chemicals, soap and scrap iron, fertilizer, leather, glass, paper, old rubber and garden truck were some of the things Interstate Commerce Commissioners in Washington pondered last week when opponents of the railroads' petition for a 15% freight rate increase began to present their rapid-fire testimony (TIME, July 27, Aug. 3). Shippers and manufacturers popped up and down in the witness stand to oppose Ex Parte 103 faster than the Press could keep track of them. The gist of their argument: if rail rates went up they, the rate payers, would divert more & more of their...
Interesting among ancient traditions of the sheet is the "rubber da rag" (read the paper) anecdote. The story is told of a new man in the ad alley, a chap who was assigned the job of setting up an ad for one of Butte's big department stores. This man had begun his task when it occurred to him that perhaps the store in question employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest...
...July 1, 1927 Col. Henry Aaron Guinzburg, Jewish rubber manufacturer and philanthropist, gave his son Harold a $71,368 house as a wedding present. On Nov. 16, 1928 Col. Guinzburg died. The Government, contending that the gift was made in expectation of death to evade the inheritance tax, assessed the Guinzburg estate an extra $2,000. Col. Guinzburg's lawyer son-in-law James Marshall, son of the late great Louis Marshall, brought what the U. S. accepted as a test suit...
...summer Thomas Alva Edison had been ailing at his Llewellyn Park home and laboratory near West Orange, N. J. Fortnight ago the heat wave forced him to abandon his rubber-from-goldenrod experiments (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929) and devote his energies to keeping cool. One hot day last week an automobile was ordered to take him driving. Waiting for it, the 84-year-old inventor suddenly seemed to doze off. He had collapsed. Sons Theodore, Thomas Alva Jr., Charles and Mr. Edison's daughter & son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. John Eyre Sloan, bustled about excitedly.* Doctors arrived from Morristown...
...side) were engaged in the shipping industry of New England. He spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront of Boston, where he was born, and Bath where his family summered. When he accepted President Frank A. Seiberling's offer of a job with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900, it was with misgiving. Akron was so far inland...