Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army's final supply bill, $223,398,047 mostly for new planes. To this sum it was expected he would ask Congress to add $25,000,000. It would be used to purchase and store strategic minerals such as zinc, chromium, manganese and tin and to buy coffee, rubber and other tropical products under a $100,000,000 four-year program which would bring total expenditures for national defense close to $2,000,000.000. No opposition was expected, as there has been no opposition to any of the record-breaking peacetime appropriations for national defense...
Adventurer Miller tells how boys' noses are bored to take inch-wide bamboo plugs in each nostril, how a native village smells two days' travel away ("an acrid odor . . . like smoke from a bonfire of rubber boots"), how a trail-cutter can die from a cobra bite before hitting the ground. His accounts of jungle sex are more colorful if less accurate than an anthropologist's. For squeamish readers there is always the dedication: "To Mother...
...parties insisted was totally different from the Dictators' market-ruining barter deals in that the U. S. British materials would be stored off the market for seven years, used by the Governments during that time only in case of war. The U. S. got 85,000 tons of rubber, about one-fifth of a peace year's consumption. Britain got 600,000 bales of cotton, almost half as much as she now buys from the U. S. in a year...
Only 30,000 tons of the rubber are now in stock in Singapore; the rest must ooze out of trees, be dried and baled for shipment. The U. S. cotton is but 41% of the 13,700,000-bale mountain held by the Government. To release it, Congress has only to authorize Commodity Credit Corp. to dispose of it at less than the prices loaned on it to U. S. planters. Joe Kennedy, old-time Wall Street trader, felt tickled that he had saved his country about $6,000,000 on a $30,000,000 purchase, also that half...
...Negotiations to swap U. S. cotton (and wheat) for Dutch rubber (and tin) were reported off last week because Germany objected...