Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cooperate with the Department of Agriculture experts in developing, instead of cotton, noncompeting products which the U. S. can depend on in wartime-rubber, quinine, hardwoods...
With U. S. exporters now able to obtain payments for goods sold to Brazil, the resumption of payment on Brazil's bonds, the possibility of the U. S. obtaining rubber (an essential war material) from the western hemisphere, the solidarity of the western hemisphere was brought a good step closer...
...breaks out in foreign lands. The Executive decides to help one side. The nation becomes involved in secret commitments and breaches of neutrality. Then there are 'episodes' and excuses for taking sides further. . . . When it is too late to be neutral, Congress is asked to rubber stamp a declaration of war, and the people are lured by fancy slogans about fighting to end all war and save democracy. After the supreme sacrifice is made, democracy is destroyed and the peace settlement lays the groundwork for the next...
House members were fairly polite to the Secretary. Crusty old Democrat Carter Glass produced a bluish bundle wrapped in rubber bands. "That bundle," he warned, "is German marks which once were worth $46,000 and they are not worth wiping your nose...
Last week all the top Akron rubber executives were unanimous in believing that their new products would eventually surpass tires and tubes in dollar volume...