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Thump, thump, thump, thump?at 3:30 p. m. the sound of the crippled Chancellor's rubber tipped canes was heard, and at 3:46 the great budget speech...
Thomas Midgley Jr., Dayton chemist, inventor of ethyl gasoline, placed a dish of a new refrigerant devised by him on a table before his section. Leaning low over the boiling dish he inhaled the white gas given off by the steaming liquid. Through a rubber tube he then blew the gas out of his lungs into a dish containing a burning candle, extinguished...
...device consists of a vulcanized rubber casing to be laced to the leading edge of the wing and impregnated with an oil which resists the formation of ice. There the scientists were faced with the problem of composing an oil which would not only offer zero-adhesion, but would not be scrubbed away by the action of 100-mile winds and rain. Further to render the scrubbing action impossible, the oils are absorbed into thin sheets of vulcanized rubber which in turn exude the mixture...
...Ogre has yet another weapon. The terrific force of his ally, the wind, against a plane in flight is sufficient to hold ice particles against the rubber by atmospheric pressure, although there is no actual adhesion. The ice will not remove itself. Ingeniously, the experimenters ran an air tube through the overshoe beneath the oil-holding layer. A flip of a small pump in the pilot's cockpit slightly inflates the tube, budging the ice, which is immediately blown away as the vacuum breaks...
...Friday April 4, the final day of spring football practice, the "Hardwicks" won the spring football title by defeating the rival "Mahans" 13 to 0 in the rubber game of the three contest series. J. F. Shereschewsky '32 scored all 13 points for the Hardwicks, racing 40 yards off left tackle in the first period for the initial score, and plunging eight yards in the third period for the second touchdown, after which he kicked the extra point...