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...Last week the International Latex Corp., whose Playtex girdle "controls but does not constrict or bind," enthusiastically reprinted the letter in newspaper...
...height of seven feet.* Canny Richard Mortimer examined the flora, reported: "The plant can be grown as easily as a common weed, and raw rubber will drip from it when it is cut. Samples of the plant were sent to a chemist. The report came back: 'pure latex.' Each plant yields between one and two ounces of latex; an acre would yield over two tons. The possibilities are stupendous. The center of the rubber-producing world will be right here in England, and the cost of rubber will be only a fraction of the present price...
Richard Mortimer's excitement was dampened by professional botanists, pend ing further inquiry. Many a weed contains latex: for example, swamp milkweed yields 45 Ib. per acre, goldenrod 75 Ib. But 4,000 Ib. per acre is ten times as much as the average output of Malaya's richest rubber plantations...
...Foamed-rubber latex, familiar stuffing for auto upholstery, now seals airplanes' bomb doors and cabins, cushions flight-control instruments, earphones and helmets. It weatherstrips tanks against sand and water, protects crews from bumps...
Sometimes this reclaimed solid crude is further reduced to a liquid latex. It is kneaded in water with a soapy "dispersing agent" until the rubber molecules lose their attraction for each other and disperse to form an even suspension in the water. From such latexlike dispersions are made heavy, industrial rubber gloves and other dipped articles, as well as rubberized fabrics like raincoats...