Word: cryptostegia
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...House in honor of Haiti's visiting President Elie Lescot, who had arrived in Washington the day before. Then he read from his remarks at the dinner. Haiti, he said, had more than justified the independence granted her in 1934, had notably helped the war effort by growing cryptostegia (which may be called rubber, said Franklin Roosevelt, because it is rubber). Then he said he hoped that after he leaves the White House the Congress will not raise tariff walls against natural rubber just to keep some synthetic plants going. "I believe in cheap tires and more of them...
...Committee, added that the synthetic program was going so well that many substitute plans had been ash-canned, and he himself hoped to go back to his railroad by summertime. The once-ballyhooed guayule plan has been slashed from 200,000 acres to a paltry 15,000; schemes like cryptostegia vines, home-grown rubber trees and dandelions are headed the same way (see p, 54). Then he sent the hopes of U.S. motorists up: "By April 1944 . . . civilians will begin to get a little synthetic rubber...
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