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Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Goodyear and United States Rubber???why are their major rubber plantations in Brazil, Liberia and the Dutch East Indies, rather than on U. S. colonial soil? Last week Mr. Davis found, presumably, the answer. The Dutch permit their natives to lease land to exploiters...
...little drama on the stage intended to show the right and wrong way to do business. Classic Marchand example of commercial wrongheadedness is the case of Wrigley's chewing-gum when first introduced into England. Britons would not chew until the word gum?which signified nothing but raw rubber???was changed to "sweet...
...respect (see p. 16), Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, 83, continued last week a living though not a lively man, plodding on with life's-end work in his Fort Myers, Fla., winter laboratory. Whether or not he lives to accomplish his latest work?finding a new source of rubber???he had lived to see a semi-official national celebration of his first great work?last summer's Golden Jubilee of Light (TIME...
None the less it goes ill with rubber manufacturers to be compelled to pay extreme prices, and it goes down ill in Congress that the British are taking $700,000,000 a year out of the U. S. in rubber???an amount which more than pays the British debt annuities...
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