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Matchmaking. Chemist John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking...
There exist other foreign monopolies of natural products which hamper where they do not constrain U. S. business?British rubber, French-German potash, Chilean nitrate and iodine, Japanese camphor, Brazilian coffee...
This competition is being fostered by British finance in spite of the fact that the U. S. is now the greatest store and supply house for borax in the world. The American Potash and Chemical Corporation, present producers of borax from brine, are a subsidiary of the New Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa in London; the Pacific Coast Borax Co., present producers of borax from kernite, are a subsidiary of the Borax Consolidated of London...
...bill before the House last week was designed to give U. S. industries immunity under the anti-trust laws in collective buying of crude rubber, potash, sisal "or other raw materials or products of nature." The opposition which sprang up declared that such a measure would injure the U. S. consumer. New York's vociferous Black sought to belittle Candidate Hoover, to whose warnings against the British rubber monopoly, the measure was traceable. Up stood Connecticut's tall Tilson, the Republican leader. He called attention to Premier Baldwin's announcement, the day before in Parliament, that...
That the U. S. is "self-sustaining" in most respects but depends almost entirely upon other countries for chromium, manganese, tungsten, nickel, tin, mercury, hemp, rubber, nitrates, coffee, potash...