Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schwartz and Peck found the manufacturers of adhesive tape as secretive about the ingredients and methods of manufacture as they are about the yearly yardage and dollar value of their plaster. Eventually the following list of ingredients became clear: rubber, rosin. "Burgundy" pitch, olibanum, beeswax, zinc oxide, anhydrous lanolin, starch, orris root...
Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants. Complexion, previous skin diseases or a predisposition to shingles or other allergens apparently have nothing to do with the sensitivity to adhesive plaster found in one out of every hundred normal men, women & children...
Pointing a reproving finger at adhesive tape manufacturers, the Schwartz-Peck report to Surgeon General Gumming concludes: "Research in adhesive manufacture should make it possible to substitute non-irritating types of rosins and rubber for the present types...
...William Edward Code of Chicago to oblige his friend, the late Anton J. Cermak, then head of the Cook County Board, who sought an inexpensive outdoor game suited to large playgrounds. A combination of golf and soccer, its object is to kick a large, lively rubber ball down stretches of "fairway" into 14 specially constructed bowls in the smallest possible number of kicks. A set of bowls with flags, kickoff-markers and 48 inflated 12-oz. balls, all the equipment required to play Codeball anywhere, costs about $100. There are now estimated to be 50,000 competent Codeballers...
...sagged badly; the others slept in hammocks. One day, to Roosevelt's surprise. Rondon revived flagging spirits by erecting a sign naming the river "Rio Roosevelt" by authority of the Brazilian Government. The party cheered bravely and went on. When they finally sighted the first outpost huts of rubber-gatherers, the dauntless Rough Rider was prostrate in the bottom of a covered canoe with a bad abscess of the knee. He found that his river flowed into the Madeira, which in turn flowed into the Amazon...