Word: rubbering
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...fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries to work it, throws good money after bad. In increasing frenzy he dissipates all his ill-gotten gains on the infernal machine. Hero, after misadventures, tracks him down. From this point the plot thickens, twists, jumps like a rubber band. Its final fillip knocks Villain on the chin, Hero and Heroine into each other's arms. In a few minutes you have seen, with many a thrill, many a laugh, nary a tear, Life's panorama sweep...
...greeted the first notable failure of the year. On the Curb, from which the company was also suspended, support was practically withdrawn from stocks identified with Sisto. Cosden Oil went from $11½ to $8; Cuneo Press from $31½ to $16; Hygrade Food Products from $6 to $2f; National Rubber Machinery from $8¾ to $1?. An investment trust sponsored by the firm last year, Sisto Financial, tumbled from $17? to $10 and remained pegged at that figure with $2 bid, and a sale at $4? taking place "under the rule...
...their occupations and described typical problems encountered in a day's work. On hearing the talks the Senior definitely decided that manufacturing was the field for him, and through the Alumni Placement service, which also maintains offices in Wadsworth House, he succeeded in finding a job in a rubber factory, where the work is proving thoroughly satisfactory...
...specimen himself. In this way he obtained the only veritable man-eating tiger to reach the U. S. alive. The Sultan of Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed like a Texas steer, pulled up to the mouth...
Annoying even to God-fearing rubber-men must have been this sermon. But the fact, however unrelated, was that before the ensuing week was out leaders of the industry met and conferred and, on the one day of the week when all stocks were weakest, rubber stocks suddenly firmed, flurried higher on the glad tidings that some of the many troubles of the tire industry had been patched...