Word: percha
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...chewing-gum base from the U.S. entered Germany recently falsely labeled "raw gutta-percha"-a duty-free item. Hard-to-recognize electronic devices are classified as items simpler and cheaper; high-grade steel is listed as low-grade. "Many goods are thoroughly packed," says a badgered customs man, "and with great amounts coming through, we can't unpack everything...
...stockpile mummified leftovers from previous wars and to lend them out to the villagers as needed. From his handsome riverside fortress in Kuching, he brought modest prosperity to the kingdom by exploiting its oil and rubber resources as well as diamonds, birds' nests (for Chinese gourmets) and gutta-percha (for golf balls). In 1941, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Brooke raj, Sir Charles gave his people a constitution and set them on the road to self-government. Contemplating war-ravaged Sarawak in 1946, Sir Charles sadly realized that his raj had become an anachronism in the postwar world...
...herself involved in an emotion-charged argument with the family of the Camelback's vehemently anti-Communist Proprietor Jack Stewart. Convinced that Mrs. Robb had not only impugned his politics, but criticized his hotel's food and service as well (she described the luncheon peas as "gutta-percha"). Stewart gave the Robbs five minutes to get out of the Camelback...
...Perky Warren? To last week's off-Broadway audience he was only a nice old Canadian eccentric who likes people, but Toronto's Bay Street financiers know him as the 62-year-old onetime president of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., a latex prince descended from some of the red, white and bluest blood in North America; e.g., Priscilla Mullins' John Alden, Connecticut's Revolutionary Governor Jonathan Trumbull. At home in Toronto, his closest companions are his 13-year-old beagle Tobey and his solicitors, Ricketts, Farley & Lowndes...
...flyer who has been breaking altitude records for light planes since 1927. Caproni is one of the most important builders of Italian military aircraft. Stella is a type of engine. One day last week at Montecelio Airfield outside Rome smiling young Pilot Donati stuffed himself into a gutta percha flying suit, crammed his feet into oiled boots, strapped an oxygen mask to his face. Then he gunned the Stella engine of his Caproni biplane, shot into the sky, and climbed, climbed, climbed. Stella's customary limit was 24,600 ft. but she had been specially primed for this flight...