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Tiny, scenic Ceylon (pop. 7,500,000), a free member of the British Commonwealth since 1948, is heavily dependent on rubber exports. When the Korean war broke out in 1950, the price of natural rubber zoomed from a sickly 18? a pound to about 90?. The U.S., by curtailing its purchases and relying largely on its own synthetic rubber, forced the price of natural back down to about 30^. That slump hurt Malaya and Indonesia, as well as Ceylon; but on top of it, Ceylon had a rice crop failure this year. It had to reduce the ration...
...price of $156.80 a ton; with the purchase money, the Reds would buy 22,321 tons of rubber. Last week the missioners were back in Colombo with a Chinese offer to buy Ceylon's entire rubber output (about 54,911 tons annually) at 33? a pound for the next five years. Colombo seemed on the verge of accepting...
Worse yet, even if the blood were available, the three U.S. plants producing G.G. could not handle the extraction job, and such plants are expensive to build and operate. Finally, G.G. itself is costly: at present prices, a season's four shots for a 50-pound youngster would cost $70, and more than $100 for a 100-pounder, because the amount used goes up with the subject's weight. Mass production might halve these costs...
Fargason, the 5 ft., 10 in., 174-pound fullback, was listed as a third string reserve at the season's start. As a freshman, he saw only limited action, carrying the ball nine time for a net of 41 yards and a 4.7 average. But now, he is one of the central operators in Davidson's modified version of the buck-lateral series...
...tackle this year was supposed to have been 245-pound Harry Petersen, but the knee injury which kept him out of last year has been bothering him. Two fairly experienced men, senior Bob Tucker and junior Ben Craig, have been operating at the tackle positions...