Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Aug. 7 states, "For the past two years Japan has bought from the U. S. well over half the high-test motor fuel, motors, machinery, scrap metals and scrap rubber essential to her Chinese conquest...
Brazil's coffee and rubber business went to pot. She made an enforced about-face and began to export kidney beans, sugar, beef, manganese. Before the end of the War her foreign trade had contracted 22% in dollar volume and 46% in physical volume but she had an export balance of $70,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year...
With country-doctor resourcefulness, Osteopath Fisher gathered a tank of oxygen from the village welding shop, a quart fruit jar from Mrs. Faulkner's kitchen, four pieces of rubber tubing from Mr. Faulkner's garage. He filled the jar with sterile water, punched four holes in its cap and screwed it on. He ran one long tube from the oxygen tank through the cover and almost to the bottom of the jar. The other three tubes were stuck just far enough through to take the oxygen as it came off the water's surface. Function...
When the rig was ready, two of the outlet tubes he inserted into the babies' nostrils. After they began to gasp again, he pulled out the nostril tubes, attached a rubber mask made from an old stomach pump in his instrument kit to the fourth tube, held it for a few minutes over each baby's nose. In a short time their pinched blue faces turned red again and they began to breathe normally...
...Journal of the American Medical Association last week Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and colleagues* of the Mayo Clinic published a complete report of their new doughnut-shaped rubber oxygen mask (TIME, Jan. 16). Oxygen administered in hospitals through cumbersome, complicated oxygen tents usually costs a patient $12 to $25 a day. Use of the small, neat inhalation mask, said Dr. Boothby, "should average only $5 to $8 a day," and in certain cases a patient "can be taught the entire technique of administering the oxygen to himself at home...