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rubber Further, trees it takes (Hevea) to five yield years latex. for Some experiments with low-yield rubber shrubs in the Southwest and Mexico are in progress. U. S. Rubber Co. has its own plantations in Oceana. Firestone Rubber Co. is trying to develop Liberian jungles. It has made little progress there so far. In their predicament U. S. rub ber manufacturers have five measures towards gaining some relief: 1) reclaimed rubber, 2) synthetic rubber, 3) factice, 4) mineral rubber, and 5) more economical meth ods of manufacture. Improved Manufacture. Last week a company was formed, the American Anode...
While the pencil sharpeners were bustling about in preparation, no one seemed to give a thought M. Quinones de Leon. It was noted by the bustling clerks at the Secretariat that the Liberian minister at Paris had addressed a note to the League conveying his nation's adherence to the recent Arms Control convention and strongly emphasizing that Liberia was a sovereign and independent republic. It was noted that Angora had designated Rushdi Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister to attend the Councils meeting and do battle for Turkeys side of the Mosul question. It was even noted that William Slocum...
Answered the Negro Secretary, who had previously given his age as 43 and had stated he was educated at the old Liberian College at Monrovia, Liberian capital: "Rubber is thriving well in Liberia and there will be a good crop this season. Fifteen hundred acres, planted by the Firestone concern as an experiment, have turned out a success, and 20,000 acres are now under cultivation...
...Firestone has not, however, remained idle. He has organized a mid-western group of important interests and has practically concluded negotiations for a large concession in Liberia, Africa, to locate new rubber plantations. Along with the concession, railways and roads would be built and the finances of the Liberian Government would be assisted for internal improvements. Liberia will, in fact, soon send a Loan Commission to Manhattan. Under the Liberian law, no white foreigner can own land-the result of a policy of "Africa for the Africans"-and the Firestone concession is said, therefore, to be based on a long...
...late Alajor Charles Young of the U. S. Army, for service in organizing the Liberian Constabulary and developing roads in the Republic of Liberia...