Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved legislation completing the barter transaction whereby 600,000 bales of U. S. cotton will be exchanged for British rubber...
...transportation changed just as radically. There were few ships available to carry cotton, coffee and tobacco. More important, the cost of insuring these staples in transit through mine-and-submarine-infested waters rose to affect commerce in the same way as if new tariff barriers had been erected. Rubber, for example, zoomed to 90? a pound in New York during the War, but in Singapore, it brought growers only 20? wholesale...
...Scarff's ventriculoscope is a metal tube three-eighths of an inch in diameter, ten inches long. At the bottom is a lens, two tiny electric lights, two threadlike rubber hoses, for maintaining adequate fluid pressure in the brain, and an electric wire for cauterizing. At the top of the instrument is an eye piece and an electric connection. Gently working the ventriculoscope through Alice's grey matter down to one of her ventricles, Dr. Scarff was able to see about two inches of choroid plexus. Turning on the electricity, he seared off all the feathery tissue...
...expired in 1937. Meanwhile, TVA covered the valley. Towns were encouraged to build or buy city-owned distributing plants with Government money. TVA transmission lines foliated alongside and over private lines with cheap power, made possible in part at least because TVA paid no taxes,* operated under a rubber capital structure, even sent out its mail postage-free...
...near the bow. We would then rub around the edge of the hole a mixture of phosphorus and cheese (any sharp cheese would suffice). The light from the phosphorus and the tantalizing odor accompanying it would invariably attract any whifflepoofs lingering beneath us. We hovered over the hole, with rubber bands stretched out in our fingers. As soon as a whifflepoof would thrust his inquiring snout through the hole, we would quickly snare him with a rubber band, encircling his gills with it. He would soon choke, and we were then able to draw him up through the hole...