Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strong of Will: When you see a long figure apparently made of India rubber, and possessed of slightly Katherine Hepburnish tendencies loping easily down the corridor, then you know that the great Pooh Bah of Winsor has passed by . . .Hor favorite garment: an undershirt: probable future occupation: mother...
...world problem the present Japanese trade menace is largely a matter of textile goods. Only in the U. S. where Japanese dumping has been receiving more and more attention since the last days of the Hoover Administration is the accent shifted to small manufactured goods-celluloid toys, rubber soled shoes crockery electric light bulbs. The U. S. is by far Japan's greatest market, but from the U. S. Japan imports one-fourth again as much as she sends...
...People forget the low purchasing power of the native boys. The purchase of cheap Japanese rubber soled shoes has done more to check hookworm here than all the efforts of the health department...
Such interchanges went on constantly during the war-always of course through a neutral intermediary. (The amenities of warfare must be observed, even at some inconvenience.) Throughout the war English and French industries maintained to Germany a steady stream of glycerin (or explosives), nickel, copper, oil, and rubber. Germany even returned the compliment: she sent France iron and steel and magnetos for gasoline engines. This constant traffic went on during the war via Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, or Holland, by the simple process of transshipment--enemy to neutral to enemy...
...rubber manufacturers, who use nearly two-thirds of the world's production, would have been more alarmed than they were last week had they not considered these three facts: 1) the pact has yet to be approved by the governments of the eight contracting parties: 2 ) a panel of U. S. and European rubber users will be invited to consult with the international regulating committee; 3) the British Rubber Growers Association, the power behind the pact, issued a statement declaring that "whatever its temporary attractions, an excessive price would not be for the permanent welfare of the industry...