Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber had no odor, it might find profitable uses in milk cans, beer vats and food containers. Last week from London came news that two chemists of the Rubber Growers' Association had located and practically eliminated rubber's inherent smell...
...wild" rubber (collected from virgin forests), putrefaction produces a disgusting smell. But most U. S. rubber comes from man-arranged plantations. Plantation rubber gets its smell from the sulphur or nitrogenous accelerators required to cure the rubber for commercial use. The Rubber Growers' chemists, H. P. Stevens and E. J. Parry, have been unable to find substitute accelerators as good as the smelly ones. On the other hand they found that zinc carbonate added during the manufacturing process reduced smells to a minimum, and very simply. More complicated and costly is the purification of the latex (the original rubber...
...long 180,000 tons of rubber, 700,000 tons of sugar, smaller amounts of cottonseed oil, flaxseed, silk, sulphur, lard and 3,168,000,000 eggs...
...automobile crash in San Antonio, Tex. injured plump, benevolent Edgar B, Davis, rubber & oil tycoon who spent $1,500,000 to keep the play The Ladder going for 22 months in 1927-28 because he believed in its "message" about transmigration of souls...
...which he and his friends have worked for years, but, more important, his Commodity Exchange, with its 1,031 members, was being auspiciously launched upon a rising tide of prices which promised to lead on to fortune. Seats on the Commodity Exchange, which for the merger of the old Rubber, Silk, Hides and Metals Exchanges, were valued at $900. have shot...