Word: percha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been done to improve them. The soil and climate of the Islands, however, is as good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only a very small percentage comes from the Philippines. If, therefore, Americans would help the Filipinos to develop their great resources, the benefit would be mutual. We need their products. The need our financing and technical skill...
...When I had a place at No. 212 Broadway I sent President Garfield a pen like that. L. E. Waterman had a place a few doors down the street. I used to get my rubber from H. P. & E. Day up at Seymour, Conn. No one could make gutta percha like they could, on a big marble table, you know. Well, one time Mr. Day said he couldn't sell me any more rubber casings. Said he'd made a contract with Waterman. I put all my machinery on a boat and sailed it down to Baltimore...
Doctor-Explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice is gathering ethnological, geological, commercial data (rubber, gutta-percha). It is his eighth trip to tropical South America, where he has already mapped some...
...Western Union Telegraph Co. 300% over similar cables. Officials of the Company believe it will revolutionize the cable industry. A trial cable, laid in deep water off Bermuda, withstood severe tests. In the new type of cable a thin layer of permalloy surrounds the copper core, under the gutta percha and wire coating on the outside...
Guttie Balls. At Woking, on the Surrey dunes, England amused herself with her annual investigation into the idiosyncrasies of the old- fashioned gutta percha ball. A notable group of players, including long-hitting Cyril Tolley, " ancient " Bernard Darwin, Roger Wethered, C. V. L. Hooman, E. W. E. Holderness, conducted experiments. Wethered managed to hew out a 77. Tolley, who can drive over 300 yards with abnormal rubber cored ball, did little better than 200 with his gutta percha pellet...