Word: rubbering
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...clearances of stock sales on the London exchange are made only semimonthly instead of daily as in the U. S. When the second July settlement came around last week, the exchange machinery almost , broke ; clerks were worked overtime for many hours. It all came about because of speculation in rubber stocks following the rise of the better grades of rubber to $1.20 a pound...
This increase follows from British laws restricting rubber production in her colonies, laws passed to do away with overproduction that was impoverishing the industry. The restriction has about quadrupled the price of rubber...
Last fortnight, some 2,500 of the quiet, precise persons whose natural element is card catalogs, rubber stamps, sharpened pencils and orderly multitudes of books, gazed out of the windows of special railroad trains at the Rocky Mountains. At Lake Louise, Banff, Glacier National Park and other places they had located in bold print on the atlas, the travelers emerged from their cars, sighed with admiration, took snapshots, bought and addressed post-cards-"Dear Harriet: Just dandy out here. Wish you were with us. Arrived at 4:37 and leave tomorrow morning at 9:22. Love to all. Edith...
Corn stalks are extensively used for ensilage and feed for animals. From the corn cob is extracted a synthetic resin which is extensively used in making telephone receivers, pipe stems, electrical equipment formerly made of hard rubber, buttons, glue and similar objects...
...Brooklyn, one Gertrude Stigman, 9, promoted to the 4B grade in school, was rewarded by her mother with a rubber ball. Gertrude bounced the ball joyously high in air, landed it in a flower box, climbed up, clutched the side of the box which, unsettled by her tug, toppled with its 200 lb. of earth upon her skull, crushed her to death...