Word: rubbering
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...Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr. since January have been in Liberia (Africa) inspecting the two 50,000 acre plantations of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and experimenting with their radio. Last week, on a wave length of 43.5 metres over a distance of 4,600 miles, Rubberman Firestone radiobroadcast to Akron, Ohio, news of the latest Firestone plantation operations. Men in the Akron plant heard and heeded the words of their president...
Died. Clifton H. Dwinnell, 55, financier, director of the Hood Rubber Co., president since 1926 of the First National Bank of Boston; in Boston...
Charles Bronson Seger, chairman of the U. S. Rubber Co., reported income in 1927 of $10,232,052 (income in 1926 was $11,473,158); explained that the selling price of rubber had declined...
...child whooped and gamboled at play in the garden of an Egyptian hotel near the great pyramid of Cheops. Nearby reclined a young woman, easing certain internal pangs with a hot water bottle. She, roused by the scion's arrogant, unbridled shouts, rose up and hurled the comforting rubber bag at the Stanley child. Striking his shoulder, the bag burst, and scalded him so smartly that a physician had to be summoned...
When Lincoln was President and Walt was a rubber-stamp clerk in the Indian Office, Lincoln had already read Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," and expressed pleasure in them, although chastening his praise with regret at veiled allusions of the lines. Later Whitman was pointed out to Lincoln, who said: "Well, he looks like a man." These are practically all the ties with Whitman from the Lincoln side...