Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rubber workers do not live "amid a pervading stench from the vats." There are no vats in rubber factories...
Akron naturally has rubber odors [TIME, June 6]. It is hardly fair, however, to refer to the "pervading stench" of Akron. ... If you must insist upon enlarging on the factory odors and the "flatlands" you should in fairness mention the odorless highlands of Goodyear Heights, one of our outstanding workingmen's developments of East Akron...
...last week the busy bombers, dropping pyrotechnic flares to light their work at night, had wrecked the Sun Yat-sen University, the British-owned Saichuen power station, cutting off all air-raid alarms, and the huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth...
Producers of other commodities seem to have developed similarly sensitive reflexes since Depression I when business took its time about shutting up shop. In London last week the International Rubber Regulation Committee cut the third quarter export quota to 45% of basic allowances. Setting of the new quota, lowest since the Committee was formed, halted an abrupt decline in prices-19.7? a Ib. down to 11.3? since last year. Also the International Tin Committee ordered tin exports cut from 55% to 45% of standard tonnages. In Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace said he would soon reduce sugar quotas...
...admits that after she was seduced she was wildly promiscuous until she bore an illegitimate son, became a streetwalker after he died. Most interesting but cloudiest part of To beg I am ashamed tells of her brief marriage, which took her to Malaya, where her husband worked for a rubber company. Since he knew of her past, she thought the marriage was hopeless from the start, nevertheless made a desperate effort to become respectable, was frustrated by her former clients, her mother's malicious disclosures, her husband's sullenness and doubt, her own inertia...