Word: rubbering
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...Dodge properties is still unknown. Their banking syndicate has already subscribed sufficient money to pay the huge cash price demanded. Bonds and stock of the Company will be offered for public subscription. Back in the after-War period, Dillon, Read & Co. refinanced the then tottering Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., and from this fact some have thought that a merger with Dodge Brothers and possibly other motor and motor-equipment firms might be planned, of a size and importance to rival General Motors. The motor industry faces keen competition and undoubtedly calls for consolidations. But Dillon, Read & Co. denied the existence...
Thomas A. Edison, Harvey S. Firestone and Henry Ford give, at inter- vals, a thought to the production of rubber in the U. S. Last week, Mr. Firestone gave an interview. His points...
...great part of the world's rubber is under British control. In 1922, the British Colonial office, headed by Winston Churchill, pursuaded Parliament to limit rubber production in the Empire and to reduce exportation to 60% of the normal production. The price of rubber promptly advanced from 15 to 37c. a pound...
...Last year, "Winnie" Churchill became Chancellor of the Exchequer, responsible for the enforcement of the rubber-prohibition. He enforced. He told his fellow-countrymen that Americans should pay at least 50c. a pound. Last August, the British Government made a further reduction of 5%, a similar one in November, so that now only 50% of normal British rubber production may, by law, be exported...
...that the members of the electoral college were to meet all together instead of in their respective states. For in that case, the Electoral College might have had some prestige in the public eye and in its own eyes and might never have allowed itself to become a mere rubber stamp...