Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news from the Extreme Orient had more effect than the posters. In Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China, Japanese troops violated the last pretense of French sovereignty, * took full control over France's richest colony (rice, rubber, tin, coal). They arrested Vice-Admiral Jean Decoux, Vichy-appointed Governor General, promptly decreed martial law, a sunset-to-sunrise curfew. In Hanoi, Saigon (strategic harbor on the South China Sea) and other cities they disarmed French and Annamite garrisons. They formally proclaimed the "independence" of the Empire of Annam, province nearest the Philippines...
Hard-drinking U.S. synthetic rubber and smokeless powder plants, which in 1944 downed about 90% of the domestic sugar, grain and molasses alcohol supply, have been searching feverishly for more & more industrial alcohol spigots. Almost equally fervent has been the Pacific Northwest's hunt for new industries with postwar prom ise. Last week, in one happy stroke, the Government got its spigot and the North west its new industry...
...Deal. As the operators sat uncomfortably on spindly, gilded chairs, Miner Lewis enumerated 18 financial and nonfinancial "adjustments" that he proposed to get this spring for his men-premium pay for late shifts, free explosives, fuses, rubber boots and other materials, better sanitary facilities. Then he emphasized what his unhappy listeners had already gathered: he was going to do everything possible to avoid engaging the Government on a second front-even though he enjoys fighting the Government...
Since 1912, bald, businesslike Dr. Lucas Petrou Kyrides (rhymes with Wheaties) has been grinding out inventions in a steady stream. His inventions, now totaling over 100, include a syphilis-curing drug (Mercurosal), the first U.S. process for making synthetic rubber from isoprene and butadiene, the first U.S. synthetic rubber tire (in 1913). As a research boss at St. Louis' potent Monsanto Chemical Co., Dr. Kyrides is one of the nation's top industrial chemists. But not until last week did he get his first public kudos: the American Chemical Society's first annual Midwest award for outstanding...
...Monsanto, where Dr. Kyrides avoids his flossy executive offices and spends almost all his time in his laboratory, he is esteemed as a modest, impulsive, absent-minded scientist. His present colleagues did not know of his pioneering work in synthetic rubber until World War II sent them to their reference books...