Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibits and 2,500,000 words of testimony and argument in the biggest antitrust case in history: the Government's suit to force the Du Pont company to sell its holdings in General Motors and the members of the Du Pont family to sell their stock in U.S. Rubber (TIME, July...
...core of the Government's massive case was that the Du Ponts had bought stock in General Motors and U.S. Rubber to assure markets for their own products. The Du Ponts defense: they had bought the stock purely as an investment. To protect their original G.M. investment they were forced to pour millions more into the company in the early '205, and run it, after G.M. Founder William C. Durant's enormous stock-market losses threatened to ruin him and G.M. alike. At the time, the Du Pont total investment was some $80 million; its holdings...
Before the rubber boom had run its course, Brazil became the world's No. 1 exporter of coffee. Coffee is still the mainstay of the economy, accounting for two-thirds of export income. "Brazil walks on one leg," said a Vargas Finance Minister, "and the leg is coffee." Dependence on a single product makes Brazil vulnerable to exchange crises every time the price slides. Not only is the one leg wobbly: it might some day wither altogether and go the way of dyewood, sugar, gold and rubber. Competition from the other coffee countries and from cheap-labor plantations...
...17th century Brazil became for a time the world's greatest exporter of sugar. Then came the gold rush; while it lasted, Brazil produced more than 40% of all the gold mined in the 18th century. The advent of the automotive age gave Brazil a great rubber boom, but Brazil now imports rubber from Malaya...
...from Scotch tape, including Scotchlite, a reflecting sheeting coated with tiny glass balls and used for advertising signs or red warning strips on car bumpers. Among the thousands of other products are lithographic plates for the printing industry, 350 varieties of wrapping ribbons, ceramic pipes and parts, concrete, synthetic rubber, furniture polish, and a line of fluorochemicals to make ordinary paper both water and oilproof...