Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly thereafter, Daveron and the R.D.C. agents in Rio had a difference of opinion. Daveron wanted to push west through the plains of Bolivia, then north to the rubber country. The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Mariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist. Neither side budged. So the R.D.C., despairing of the mules project, sold most of the beasts...
...jaguars clawed the strays. Last month, tired, tattered, and torn, Daveron and his mules made the Amazon. Of the original 171, only one mule had been lost-by snakebite. Some of the 170 that pulled through Daveron sold to the territorial government; others (at $250 a head) went to rubber producers...
Maurice C. Smith Jr., community-minded president of the Bristol Manufacturing Co. (sneakers and rubber stamps), liked the sound of brother Bill's idea. Last week he announced the appointment of the Rev. Dale B. Button, pastor of Providence's Central Baptist Church, as "Vice President in charge of Christian Relations...
...Dear Mr. Hall: I am glad to hear that your horseless carriage is giving you the satisfaction that I felt sure it would. As to the tires, you need have no concern. They are made of real rubber and are five-eighths of an inch thick...
...Dear Mr. Winton: I appreciate that the tires are made of real rubber five-eighths of an inch thick. . . . But I might run over a railway spike or something else that would pierce even their tough resistance. In such case, what should I do? No one [in Vermont] can suggest how a repair might be effected...