Word: rubbering
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...pointer is attached by a system of levers to the type tray; and when the former is brought over a desired character on the indicator, the corresponding letter on the type tray is brought beneath a small receptacle open at the bottom, but covered at the top by a rubber ball. A lever is pressed, suction is created in the receptacle, the letter is raised from its place in the tray, brought into contact with the platen, and put back in its place...
Contrary to a rumor, current yesterday, that a possible third and rubber game of the Harvard-Yale hockey series would be played in the Boston Garden, such a game, if it is needed to decide the series, will be played at New Haven according to the previous plans, it was announced yesterday by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics...
Lead Pencils. Higher duties asked and objected to. Nathan Bilder of A. W. Faber Pencil and Rubber Goods Co. declared: "It certainly is a display of extreme selfishness when an industry that leads the world and exports more than twice the value of competing importations asks for higher duties to exclude importations amounting to only 2% of consumption...
...statement: "I believe those States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico can grow plant rubber with profit to the farmer, in case of war prices. But it might be possible in the future to grow rubber and compete with the tropics. I have found over 1,200 plants to produce rubber. About 40 of them will be cultivated on a large scale...
Henry Ford has a 22,000-acre plantation near Savannah, Ga., and on it he is cultivating some of his friend's rubber plant selections. Mr. Ford has a rubber tree plantation newly started in Brazil. Mr. Firestone has his own plantation going in Liberia. These and other intimates of Mr. Edison possess little chunks of spongy brown material-Edison's first rubber from U. S. weeds...