Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the disputed 40,000 square miles is still mainly jungle, it could be cultivated, could produce spices, salt, rubber, cotton if Ecuador and Peru can ever decide which country owns which square miles...
Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
...Morgenthau as he explained this to newshawks. The announcement fulfilled his oft-repeated promise that "when [the world] is ready to seek foreign exchange stabilization, Washington will not be an obstacle." It also brought nearer that goal sought by the U. S. Treasury since 1933 when Dr. George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren enunciated the theory that the whole world would start toward recovery when all nations devalued their currency...
...Kalahari Bushmen are invariably noted for the enormous size of their buttocks. Later German scientists complained that the modeled Kalahari Bushwoman was not sufficiently steatopygic. Seriously Malvina Hoffman replied that because of the controversy she had arranged to have the buttocks of her bronze Bushwoman made of thick flexible rubber so that they might be inflated or deflated according to which anthropologist was expected to call at the Field Museum...
...quite so commendable, however, are the additions made in the process of translation. A great quantity of extraneous beings: gnomes, bat-like men out of the funny papers, rubber-skinned monsters, all thrust in their grimacing faces and do their bits. One feels that they ought either to be Shakespearean or original, and it is just a little jarring to see the rubber men do a kind of Apache dance with the faerles, and then disappear in a manner so unnatural even for a fantasy that the brainless noisemaker behind us was led to comment, "I know...