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...Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, during which the rudder was out of commission for two hours, the dirigible was moored in apparent safety−only to be set on fire by a flash of lightning! Sergeant Harry Barnes of the Air Service and A. C. Maranville of the Goodyear Rubber Company, builders of the airship, jumped to safety from a height of 40 feet and escaped with bruises. The dirigible can meet all emergencies except fire. Further production and the use of helium, non-inflammable gas, is the only solution...
...elected legislative representative of the Illinois miners. For 5½ years he was general organizer and field representative of the American Federation of Labor, in which capacity he handled the Calumet copper strike and the Akron rubber workers' strike. In 1913 he handled the unsuccessful campaign to unionize the steel industry...
...wide gamut of present-day business and economic problems. In addition to the general sessions devoted to such broad topics as railroads, European affairs and transportation, many sessions of special groups reviewed the more specific subjects of agricultural credits, modern insurance, the conservation of natural resources, coal, oil and rubber. Even methods of obtaining better postmasters were exhaustively considered. The convention expressed itself as favoring a World Court, an economic conference to settle European affairs and a slight relaxation of present immigration restrictions by the addition of a selected 2%. It sharply opposed government ownership in all its phases...
...many doctors read Printers' Ink? How many brokers ever peruse The Casket? How many barbers devote their spare time to India Rubber Review? Or actors to The Iron...
Formerly all crude rubber was obtained from the rubber trees by coagulating the sap or " latex" with either smoke or chemicals; inevitably this method left impurities in the product, and sometimes when acids were employed valuable qualities of the original latex were destroyed. But by the new process, the latex is sprayed into a snow-white mist which, placed in contact with superheated air, is deprived of its water, but nothing else. Thus " sprayed rubber" is absolutely pure virgin rubber, remains dry indefinitely, is much stronger than ordinary "crude rubber " and-unlike the latter-is completely uniform in quality...