Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into slavery in French Gabun and Spanish Fernando Po. When a League of Nations Commission verified the practice. President King and his followers, on stern advice from Washington, resigned. Next Liberia, under President Edwin Barclay, defaulted on its loan of $2,250,000 from Harvey Firestone. In 1925 when rubber was $1 per Ib. the State Department had encouraged Mr. Firestone to start a huge rubber plantation in Liberia and lend the African Republic money to pay off its European and other debts. Mr. Firestone planted 55,000 acres of rubber trees, built 100 miles of road (five times...
Though House leaders grumbled at the Senate's amendment, they had no time to squabble over it. Urged on by President Roosevelt they presented the resolution to the House which rubber-stamped it, 336-to-31, two days before the old NRA expired. Then in an all-embracing executive order the President decreed the new setup...
...administered by venoclysis, is now a customary part of operating room equipment. If an operation is going to cause great loss of blood or dangerously sap a debilitated patient's vitality, a venoclysis needle is pushed into a big vein in his arm or leg, is connected by rubber tubing to the container of salt or sugar solution...
...part of the Weyerhaeuser empire, leaving younger brothers Rudolph and Frederick in control at St. Paul. Two of John Philip's sons went to Yale. Of the third generation, these are so far the most outstanding Weyerhaeusers. When Son Frederick got out of college (1917) he nailed a rubber hook to his office door, amused himself at his father's repeated attempts to hang his coat on it. He is now president of Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. John Philip Jr. took to the forests after graduation (1920), started the firm on selective cutting, is now executive vice president...
...from a glass "mother," drinking sterile synthetic guinea pig milk of Dr. Reyniers' composition. The water and the solid food which they get later is also sterilized before being put into their cage. Portholes let Dr. Reyniers watch the guinea pigs. Two openings sealed with a pair of rubber gloves permit him to reach into the cage to handle the animals, feed and water them, clean the cage without a germ getting...