Word: rubbering
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...right moment, she might have run off with a married man. Instead, her father whisked her away to the open spaces, where a heartily disapproving young engineer (Jack Holt) went to her rescue down the rapids. The opening phases of the film are struck off with the old rubber stamp. There was even the midnight bathing-party, at which everyone got drunk and hurled the fat guest into the pool for comedy. But comedy ceased when the man and the woman were hurled into the canyon rapids. From that point forth, the adventure gained in entertainment values...
...very good during the past year, that the death rate had been the lowest on record, that he would cooperate with them in enacting "constructive legislation looking toward the upbuilding of Philippine economic independence," that they should modify the laws for leasing the public domain so as to encourage rubber planting. He summarized with a great flourish...
...also resigned from his posts, three in number, as Director of the U.S. Rubber Co., of the Santa Fe Railroad, of the National Bank of Commerce (Manhattan...
Although his clients have been J. P. Morgan & Co., the New York Telephone Co., the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, the U. S. Rubber Co., the Associated Press,* other clients have been "Mother" Jones and Eugene V. Debs, the National Window Glass Workers' Union, the Irish Free State. As a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House in the 62nd Congress, he sponsored the 'Clayton Act which declared that labor unions could not be prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. As Solicitor General he upheld the Adamson Eight-Hour Law for railroad employes and prosecuted...
...competition for model airplanes conducted by the French Air Ministry, a 16-year-old boy, Gaston Beaulieux, did well. His wonderful model, with a few strands of twisted rubber driving a tiny propeller, was released from a captive balloon at a height of over 600 feet, went up in regular circles to a height of 1,500 feet and disappeared from view in the direction of Versailles. A search was conducted for the tiny airplane...