Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predominant smell in Singapore today, it is not the withering blast of the garlic the natives put in their food, or the sickly sweet smell of the Zam-Zam hair oil they put on their heads; the strongest and biggest smell in Singapore is the sulphurous stench of unprocessed rubber. To the people of Singapore all the perfumes of Araby could not smell as sweet...
...Rubber has skyrocketed Singapore's prosperity. A record 703,891 long tons were produced in Malaya last year, another 448,989 long tons-imported from Indonesia, Siam and Indo-China for processing in Singapore plants. At the beginning of 1950, rubber was selling for a little over 17? a pound. Then the price began to rise furiously, hit a high around 80/ a pound. The buyers: U.S.A. (35% of Malayan production), Britain, Europe, Red China (up 600% from 1949) the Soviet Union and European satellites (up 28% from...
Whenever the price takes a nip-up, there is a wild scramble in the offices of Lewis & Peat, the world's largest rubber brokers, whose daily turnover frequently reaches $90 million. In the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank's new million-dollar, air-conditioned office, an hour's business will see clerks and tellers chest-deep in bank notes...
...Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with an unexploded depth charge on its deck, and gingerly set it adrift in a leaky rubber boat; of how the Angler took aboard a batch of refugees which included a two-year-old, half-Filipino boy who was "smoking (and inhaling) a cigar between gulps of his dinner which he was receiving at his mother's breast"; of how the Tautog, with Mohammedan VIPs aboard, swung...
Shaw had the cat in an air-tight box, with its head sticking out of a rubber collar in the side. There was a guage attached to the box, and when the cat inhaled--expanding its lungs--the air in the box would be compressed and would cause the guage's pointer to rise. As the cat exhaled, there would be a partial vacuum in the box, and the pointer would fall...