Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both M. van Zeeland and the Associated Press omitted one important cause of Belgium's prosperity, her African colonies. Much water has flowed under many bridges since the bold bad days of King Leopold and the rubber atrocities in the Congo. Today the Belgian Congo produces no rubber (plantation rubber is being cultivated to regain the market that wild Congo rubber once commanded), but it does produce enough coffee and cotton to fill a large part of Belgium's needs. Palm nuts and palm oil are the most important assets of the colony, mining excepted...
...baseball, it is permissible to rattle a pitcher by making a noise; but a golfer who shouts when his opponent is putting is a boorish cheat. In football, it is ethical to render an adversary senseless by hard tackling; it would be easy but unfair to win a rubber of bridge in the same way. A question of ethics in sport was internationally discussed last week after the conclusion of the Harmsworth Cup (motor boat) races in Detroit...
...well-being is incalculable, they could justly figure that eleven billion dollars of industry depend upon their knowledge and activity. The diversity of their work has enforced specializing: agriculture and food chemistry, biology, medicine, cellulose, colloids, dyes, fertilizers, gas and fuel, leather and gelatin, paint and varnish, petroleum, rubber, sugar, water, sewage and sanitation...
...London, a bullock was slaughtered, in its stomach found: seven pounds of nails, several pieces of copper wire, a silver brooch, a shoe buckle, a rubber boot and a derby hat. The bullock was pronounced healthy, its steaks pronounced tender...
...Austrian water ski is made of a bamboo frame about 8 ft. long, 2½ ft. wide. The frame is filled with a tapered rubber bladder topped at the centre with a boot-like rubber cylinder. The walker's foot and leg fit into the cylinder up to the hip. Fastened to the underside of the frame are two hollow cones. The broad hollow ends are directed backward and provide sufficient hydrodynamic resistance to keep the skis from sliding backward between steps. The water-walker must exert much effort to keep his legs from going apart and from under...