Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cavalryman was killed. A messenger boy delivering football tickets 100 yards down the street was severely wounded. Two days later Madrid students attempted a march on the Royal Palace, led by dozens of shouting, excited girls. Police, with Spanish gallantry kept their swords sheathed, thumped the girls' heads with rubber clubs...
...Goodyear Rubber Corp. was waiting and Goodyear local managers Messrs. Hargess and Ingle must have had a lot to say to the Governor General of the Philippine Islands?whether or not they dared to say it. Goodyear would much prefer to have plantations in the Philippines, rather than in Java; but there is a reason, and it may as well be called U. S. colonial stupidity...
...William Jennings Bryan era of statecraft, solicitous measures were taken to protect the native Filipino from selling his land (ideal for growing rubber) to "exploiters." He was to be educated and he was to exploit his land himself. He has been educated with marked success; but he has not made expected progress in developing his land, has turned politician rather than gentleman farmer...
Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Goodyear and United States Rubber?why are their major rubber plantations in Brazil, Liberia and the Dutch East Indies, rather than on U. S. colonial soil? Last week Mr. Davis found, presumably, the answer. The Dutch permit their natives to lease land to exploiters...
Eighty-four-year old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison last week visited Rubber-man Harvey Samuel Firestone's Miami Beach plantations, went to bed with a new invention, the "de-humidifier," in his room-a machine to abstract moisture from the air, lessen humidity fatigue. Mr. Edison arose beaming, described the apparatus as not yet ready for the market...