Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years chemists tried to make synthetic rubber by picking latex apart, deciding what it was composed of, reassembling the elements. It might have been better to look for a compound which would serve the purpose of rubber rather than duplicate its composition. The synthetic rubber which grew out of the Nieuwland researches is 40% chlorine, not an ingredient of natural rubber at all. At a chemistry symposium in Rochester, during the winter of 1925, Father Nieuwland read a paper on the formation of divinyl acetylene from acetylene and cuprous ammonium chloride. Du Font's Dr. Elmer K. Bolton...
Over 100 U. S. vaudeville performers have been booked by Gomez, the Soviet State entertainment trust, to cavort, tapdance, tumble and blow rubber razzberries in Russia this summer. Last week the U. S. State Department called attention to the plight in Moscow of "The Mangean Four Troupe," a hardy U. S. team who have barnstormed around Europe for some two years under the management of shrewd, brassy Hazel Mangean...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...Rubber Co, President Francis B. Davis...
...VORTEX-José Eustasio Rivera- Putnam ($2.50). Melodramatic Spanish tale of the South American rubber forests. This only novel of its late author is a famed best-seller in his own country...