Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companies will be obliged to provide health insurance. Fraternal societies have been doing that for their members a long time. It is what churches do when they maintain hospitals in which congregation members get cheaper rates than do the general public. The medical services of railroads, ships, lumber camps, rubber plantations form a kind of group insurance from which all employes benefit and to which they indirectly contribute. Certain tentative modifications of such insurance methods are now functioning. Dr. Wilbur referred to a Los Angeles clinic which provides almost complete medical service to several groups of employed persons...
World Control. The extreme difficulty of world control of commodity production was painfully apparent last week to sugar and rubber growers. In Paris the International Sugar Conference admitted that differences between Cuba and Java have as good as wrecked the famed Chadbourne Plan (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). After a five-month attempt, the British and Dutch Governments last week conceded that their attempts to regulate rubber production were futile...
...victims of gas asphyxia. The ordinary color of blood encountered in autopsies is a grayish blue. Dr. Magrath went out into the hall where the sister was waiting, and turning to her suddenly, shouted, "Who turned off the gas?" Taken off her guard, the girl finally admitted removing a rubber hose, which she had found connecting the gas jet with the boy's mouth, and opening the windows so as to permit the gas to escape...
...book turned from a travelog into a philippic. Lest readers doubt his competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines, railways, sugar and rubber estates in various countries. During vacations he explored. For the past rive years exploring has been his profession. Not strangely, explorers and exploring vex him most. He considers "the aims of most expeditions, particularly those to South America, falsely pretentious and insincere. . . . It is impossible that the preposterous sums raised...
...Free Trade is not dead!" he shouted, thumping his rubber tipped canes on the floor. "The tariff bill is unjustified by fact and experience. Its definite purpose is to restrict international trade. ... It wil increase the cost of living and lead to wage wars. It will impose heavy new burdens on the poor and it is useless as a bargaining weapon...